NEW: Here is the Trump team's pre-motion letter on why, in their view, the Supreme Court's immunity decision means Judge Merchan should set aside the NY verdict (via Frank G. Runyeon, Law360) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
Which is total nonsense, because Trump wasn't President when he was running for President in 2016, and paying off his bagman after the fact was the act of a private citizen and business owner, as was falsifying the records of his private business; The Office of The Presidency wasn't involved.
Prior to yesterday morning, I would have agreed with you. But with SCOTUS deciding that the law does not matter when it comes to Trump . . . who knows.
I think Merchan will try to do the right thing. Whether SCOTUS will allow that to happen is another question.
Merchan will have no problem doing the right thing.
He's a NY State judge, and has handled many previous total-nonsense Trump briefs.
We'll see if Trump finds some way to appeal this to the Federal courts, but it'd be pretty tough.
