Judge delays Trump’s hush money sentencing until at least September after high court immunity ruling
apnews.com
Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until at least Sept. 18, a major reprieve for the Republican former president.
  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    4 months ago

    We’re fucked. Fascism is here. Fight like your life depends on it. In the next few months it will. The powers that be are all in on King Trump.

    • dynamic_generals@lemmy.world
      618·
      4 months ago

      Really upset with all the straight, white lawmakers in my state that decided to ban any rifle that performs better than grandpa’s deer rifle. Trump is going to win and there will be purges. There always are when a new dictator comes to power.

      And the very ruling this article is talking about would make him immune if he makes it an order.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        4 months ago

        What does that matter? This isn’t a hydra. Without Trump this whole thing fizzles out.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    4 months ago

    defense attorneys argued that Manhattan prosecutors had placed “highly prejudicial emphasis on official-acts evidence,” including Trump’s social media posts and witness testimony about Oval Office meetings

    It’s unclear to me why an official act cannot be used as evidence that a different unofficial act occurred. Let’s say candidate Trump shoots Bob on Fifth Avenue and then, after being elected, threatens to “kill Joe the way [he] killed Bob” during his State of the Union address. He can’t be held accountable for threatening to kill Joe, but he did just confess that he killed Bob while he wasn’t president. Why couldn’t this confession be used as evidence in his trial for killing Bob? Or, for that matter, in his trial for killing Joe if he went on to kill Joe after he was out of office?

  • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
    10·
    4 months ago

    Remember: there are bad actors here that are doing everthing they can to paint Biden as being worse for America than Trump- despite things like this. Despite Project 2025. Despite him claiming he’d help Israel “finish the job.” They are urging you not to vote against him-

    LIVES DEPEND ON VOTES THIS YEAR.

    Don’t listen to these cowards and VOTE!

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday they would not oppose Donald Trump’s request to delay the sentencing in his hush money trial as he seeks to have the conviction overturned following a Supreme Court ruling that granted broad immunity protections to presidents.

    If granted by Judge Juan M. Merchan, the delay would mean that Trump won’t learn his sentence until after he is formally nominated at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which starts July 15, leaving open the possibility that he could be ordered to jail during a critical stretch of his campaign.

    The letter came one day after Trump’s attorney requested the judge delay the sentencing as he weighs the high court’s ruling and how it could influence the New York case.

    In their filing, defense attorneys argued that Manhattan prosecutors had placed “highly prejudicial emphasis on official-acts evidence,” including Trump’s social media posts and witness testimony about Oval Office meetings.

    Trump was convicted May 30 on 34 counts of falsifying business records arising from what prosecutors said was an attempt to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election.

    Prosecutors said the Daniels payment was part of a broader scheme to buy the silence of people who might have gone public during the campaign with embarrassing stories alleging he had extramarital sex.

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