By Geller Report | Created at 2025-01-10 13:30:14 | Updated at 2025-01-10 17:17:02
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The Nine will allow the president-elect to be sentenced — but do not reach a ruling on the merit of his convictions. Once again the craven John Roberts and the enormously disappointing Amy Barrett join the courts’ far left destroyers to allow this unprecedented abuse.
In my opinion, Amy Coney Barrett has been the biggest disappointment from President Trump's first term in office. I was completely fooled by this closet liberal! pic.twitter.com/fO2o3cypo5
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) January 10, 2025
Wall Street journal: The Supreme Court refused to block President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing for covering up hush money paid to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, clearing the way for an unprecedented court proceeding Friday in New York. A state jury found Trump guilty last May of 34 felonies for falsifying business records, part of a conspiracy that prosecutors said was intended to suppress damaging information before his victory in the November 2016 presidential election. The trial judge, Justice Juan Merchan, indicated last week that in light of Trump’s coming inauguration, a prison term was off the table and an unconditional discharge, or sentence with no punishment, was “the most viable solution” (Wall Street Journal).
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Reuters: New York’s top court rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to delay his sentencing Friday for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star (Reuters).
Me in @NewYorkSun on a new split in the Roberts Court, as the Chief Justice and Amy Coney Barrett carve out a creative compromise:
"Trump’s Sentencing Splinters the Roberts Court, Disclosing That Its Conservative Wing Is a House Divided on Immunity"https://t.co/FrgDHx2Hml
— Ari Hoffman (@AriHoffmanWrite) January 10, 2025
“Justice Barrett, whom President Trump nominated to the bench in his first term, concurred with the Chief’s majority opinion, but with a caveat. She determined that Trump’s efforts to convene alternate electors were “not entitled to protection” and that even actions protected by immunity could be used as evidence. Justice Barrett also dissented from the majority’s limitation of the use of a statute native to financial fraud for January 6 rioters.”
The Supreme Court, by a vote of 5-4, failed the Republic tonight and will allow @RealDonaldTrump and the presidency to be abused tomorrow by Democratic operatives Judge Merchan and Alvin Bragg. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Amy Comey Barrett joined with their leftist… pic.twitter.com/3WOR4lPsmV
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 10, 2025
Trump’s sentencing hearing should have been stayed
Five justices disagreed, lamentably
Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh got this right
The rest of the Court—including Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett—got it wrong pic.twitter.com/geTKP5Omg0
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) January 10, 2025
Supreme Court Denies Trump Bid To Delay Felony Sentencing In Hush Money Case
By: Tristan Justice, The Federalist, January 10, 2025
The Supreme Court denied President-elect Donald Trump’s request to delay Friday’s sentencing in a New York City hush money case.
The Supreme Court denied President-elect Donald Trump’s request to delay Friday’s sentencing in a New York City hush money case where he was convicted of 34 felonies for illegally labeling payments to a lawyer as legal expenses.
The high court delivered its ruling Thursday night, leaving the president no other avenue to halt his sentencing by Judge Juan Merchan scheduled for Friday morning, just 10 days before Trump reclaims the Oval Office. Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three leftist judges to deny Trump’s final effort to delay the proceedings in Merchan’s court.
The justices in the majority gave two reasons for their decision in the brief one-page ruling.
“First, the alleged evidentiary violations at President-Elect Trump’s state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal,” they wrote. “Second, the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of ‘unconditional discharge’ after a brief virtual hearing.”
Trump’s attorneys had asked the Supreme Court to put a hold on the proceedings until the conclusion of an appeal to the conviction in the New York court system.
Four of the court’s conservative justice, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, said they would have granted Trump’s request to delay Friday’s sentencing.
Trump was convicted of 34 felonies by a Manhattan jury last year over a $130,000 “hush money” payment to sex seller Stormy Daniels in 2016. The statute of limitations had already passed on the crimes, but Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had campaign to be the city’s top prosecutor on a platform of prosecuting the former and now future president. Bragg re-opened the investigation and received federal assistance to pursue charges previously declined by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Southern District of New York’s U.S. attorney’s office.
Judge Merchan, a Democrat donor whose daughter raised millions to defeat Trump, denied the president-elect’s request to delay the sentencing last week but signaled no jail time would be ordered.
Trump reacted to the Supreme Court’s decision with a post on Truth Social and pledged to keep challenging his criminal conviction.
“This was nothing other than Weaponization of our Justice System against a Political Opponent. It’s called Lawfare, and nothing like this has ever happened in the United States of America, and it should never be allowed to happen again,” Trump said. “To this day, this highly political and corrupt Judge has put a gag order on me, which takes away my First Amendment right to speak about very important aspects of the case. For the sake and sanctity of the Presidency, I will be appealing this case, and am confident that JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL.”
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