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.
Merchan has been fair. No concern with him.
But SCOTUS basically set the Constitution on fire to save Trump. And by doing so, has given him grounds to appeal and delay and overturn, that before yesterday would have been frivolous.
Our only hope is defeating trump at the polls.
