In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that presidents have immunity for official acts, President Trump has formally requested Judge Merchan overturn his guilty verdict in New York v. Trump.
This from thepatriotjournal.com.
This has come one month after Trump was controversially found guilty on all counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
On Thursday night, Trump’s defense attorney Todd Blanche called for the judge to overturn this “based on violations of the Presidential immunity doctrine and the Supremacy Clause.” He also argued that certain evidence of “official acts” should not have been admitted during the trial.
From Fox News:
Specifically, Blanche argued that testimony from former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks; former Special Assistant to the President Madeleine Westerhout; testimony regarding The Special Counsel’s Office and Congressional Investigations and the pardon power; testimony regarding President Trump’s response to FEC Inquiries; his presidential Twitter posts and other related testimony was impermissibly admitted during trial.
Trump attorneys also pointed to Trump’s disclosures to the Office of Government Ethics as president.
Blanche argued that Bragg:
[V]iolated the Presidential immunity doctrine by using similar official-acts evidence in the grand jury proceedings that gave rise to the politically motivated charges in this case.
Blanche went on to say that the Supreme Court’s decision doesn’t allow an “overwhelming evidence” or “harmless error” exception to “the profound institutional interests at stake.”
He wrote:
Indeed, Trump contemplates a pretrial interlocutory appeal of an adverse Presidential immunity determination precisely because even the prospect of such a trial is constitutionally unacceptable.
It necessarily follows that the results of a trial conducted in breach of these holdings is invalid.
Trump had been set to be sentenced on Thursday. However, Judge Merchan granted his request to delay sentencing, moving it to September.
Millions of Americans have long felt that the New York v. Trump case was a complete sham. Before the verdict was announced, even many liberal experts were admitting that it was weak. This made the guilty verdicts on all counts to be all the more shocking.
That case ultimately served as proof the Left truly will do absolutely anything to stop Trump from being reelected.
It was also a warning shot to conservatives everywhere about just how far the [L]eft will go to take down anyone on the right who gets in their way.
Thankfully, the Supreme Court has since ruled in a 6-3 decision that presidents have immunity over official acts.
Should that decision get the New York v. Trump’s ruling overturned, as it should, we can only imagine the liberal meltdown that will immediately ensue.
Final thoughts: Disappointing to say, though I do not see any positive movement here. Official Act vs. Unofficial Act, I presume, will be the sticking point.
That corruptocrat, Merchan, has not been and will not be moved now by the Supreme Court or the U.S. Constitution.
