By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-06 17:46:53 | Updated at 2025-01-08 01:35:55
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BREAKING: Trump Launches Legal Challenge to Halt Judge Merchan’s Sentencing in Junk Hush Money Case
Gateway Pundit ^ | January 6, 2025 | Cristina Laila
Posted on 01/06/2025 9:40:32 AM PST by Macho MAGA Man
President Trump on Monday morning launched a legal challenge to halt Judge Juan Merchan’s sentencing in the lawfare hush money case.
If Trump is sentenced, he will officially be a ‘convicted felon’ which is why Merchan is trying to move forward with the sentencing.
Trump will be sentenced in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare hush money case on January 10 before his inauguration.
“This court finds that neither the vacatur of the jury’s verdicts nor dismissal of the indictment are required by the Presidential immunity doctrine, the Presidential Transition Act or the Supremacy Clause,” Judge Juan Merchan wrote last Friday.
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In a court filing Monday, Trump’s attorneys argued that Merchan “will lack authority to proceed with sentencing” because Trump is still appealing Merchan’s earlier ruling that the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision does not apply to the New York hush money case.
“Forcing a President to continue to defend a criminal case — potentially through trial or, even more dramatically here, through sentencing and judgment — while the appellate courts are still grappling with his claim of immunity would, in fact, force that President ‘to answer for his conduct in court’ before his claim of immunity is finally adjudicated,” defense attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove wrote.
Trump’s attorneys said it did not matter.
“It is of no moment that the Court has suggested an intention to impose a sentence of unconditional discharge. While it is indisputable that the fabricated charges in this meritless case should have never been brought, and at this point could not possibly justify a sentence more onerous than that, no sentence at all is appropriate based on numerous legal errors — including legal errors directly relating to Presidential immunity that President Trump will address in the forthcoming appeals,” the defense said in Monday’s filing.
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: alvinbragg; hushmoneycase; juanmerchan; trump
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Thank you very much and God bless you.
I hope Trump is victorious.
To: Macho MAGA Man
Didn’t Biden say something like “We have bombers” that could be used on the States?
Trump should remind New York of that, if so.
2 posted on 01/06/2025 9:43:34 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Macho MAGA Man
In either case, history has already judged, and those who refuse to see will never see.
3 posted on 01/06/2025 9:44:45 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: Macho MAGA Man
The immediate rejoiner to the “convicted felon” slur is a reminder that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and, indeed essentially all our Founding Fathers, were “convicted felons” according to the British.
Being convicted by a tyranny is a good qualification for President. A badge of honor.
4 posted on 01/06/2025 9:45:24 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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