(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump called on the U.S. Supreme Court to decide a pending case involving presidential immunity days after a New York jury convicted him of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to an adult actress.
Supreme Court justices are considering a case involving Trump and if presidents have immunity from criminal prosecutions. Trump’s team argued the president must have immunity for a functioning democracy to flourish. The attorney for the federal government argued presidents don’t enjoy blanket criminal immunity.
The nation’s highest court heard those oral arguments in the case on April 25. When he was president, Trump picked three members of the nine-member U.S. Supreme Court: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
Trump said Sunday that the Supreme Court needs to rule on the pending case.
“The ‘Sentencing’ for not having done anything wrong will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “A Radical Left Soros backed D.A., who ran on a platform of ‘I will get Trump,’ reporting to an ‘Acting’ Local Judge, appointed by the Democrats, who is HIGHLY CONFLICTED, will make a decision which will determine the future of our Nation? The United States Supreme Court MUST DECIDE!”
Trump has said he plans to appeal the New York verdict. He has focused attention on the instructions Judge Juan Merchan gave the jury.
“Nobody even knew what the crime was until the Judge gave his Unconstitutional Instructions,” Trump wrote in another social media post. “A total Hoax! A case like this has NEVER been brought before. A Country in peril. Election Interference!!!”
Last week, a jury convicted Trump, 77, of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Under New York state law, falsifying business records in the first degree is a Class E felony with a maximum sentence of four years in prison per count. Sentencing in that case is set for July 11.
In the meantime, Trump is preparing to face President Joe Biden in a November rematch for the White House.
In New York, the case was focused on Trump’s alleged sexual encounter with an adult film actress in 2006 and a $130,000 payment to her in 2016 to keep her quiet ahead of the 2016 election. Trump denied the encounter happened. A jury convicted him at trial.
Just when the Supreme Court will rule on the case remains to be seen. All opinions of the Supreme Court are, usually, handed down by the last day of the Court’s term (the day in late June/early July when the Court recesses for the summer). With the exception of this deadline, there are no rules concerning when decisions must be released.
Trump’s team argued the president must have immunity for a functioning democracy to flourish.
Considering the low quality of Democrats I don’t agree that all presidents should have immunity, however the USSC should intervene in the absolute corruption of the Soros bought judge and DA. They need to be removed from office, and charged.
SHOULD is the operative word. BUT i highly doubt Roberts will allow it.
Hush Money? I thought it was a non-disclosure agreement.
Hush money is a term usually reserved for cover of an unlawful activity. Here there was no crime committed and nothing done that many previous presidents are guilty of.
Problem was hiding information from general publics during election season. Election tampering.
EVERY POLITICIAN does that. SO should all be charged with election tampering?
Who needed that “information”?
The same good folks who needed a Russian Dossier?
The kind of person who wipes their serving “with a cloth”? Did I type “server” I meant “illegal server”.
Trumps alleged one-night affair with a porn woman is simply dirt and of no consequence to anyone but Democrats and other simple minded Leftist stooges.
Good point max. THE LEFTIST media, loves coddling and covering for ACTUAL CRIMES done by democrats. BUT SAVAGE conservatives, for things they WANT TO be crimes, but BY THE LETTER OF THE LAW, actually are not.
For the past 50 years we have been hearing how what consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedrooms is NOBODY’S BUSINESS but their own, that prostitutes and their customers are engaging in the “world’s oldest profession”.
Oh, and J.F.K. and Billy Goat Clinton were cultural heroes.
Clinton was downright brutal to the women he cornered. President Donald J. Trump made an adult agreement, fulfilled it, and paid the porno woman very well. (I’m not saying that I would have sex with the President for that much cash but times are tough.)
I guess if he had followed the Democrat model he would have raped an innocent woman and then hold a presser to categorically deny it. Then run for office with the full co-operation of the “press”.
BUT he’s conservative, ergo he won’t be allowed to “play” their game..
The unethical, Democrat attorney for the Democrat ruled federal government argued Republican presidents don’t enjoy blanket criminal immunity.
Only corrupt, unlawful Democrat presidents enjoy blanket criminal immunity as we have seen during the president Barack Hussein Obama’s reign and this Joe B. OBiden reign.