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President Donald Trump is still fighting his 34 felony convictions in New York, one legal analyst wrote on Wednesday, but they're not likely to succeed.
In his "All Rise News," long-time legal reporter Adam Klasfeld wrote that after nearly three hours of arguments, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein — an appointee of former President Bill Clinton — was over it.
“I think we are beating a dead horse,” he said.
A jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to hide his hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign.
The Trump team has argued that some of the "evidence" should have been suppressed due to executive privilege and that the case should be removed from New York state court and tried in the federal court. It was an argument that he made during the initial stages of the case to no avail, as he was not president in 2016 when the crimes took place.
Klasfeld explained that if the judge agreed it would hand Trump a victor in his ongoing "crusade to discredit his criminal prosecution."
The problem, however, Klasfeld pointed out, is that very little would change if the case was moved to federal court. The only meaningful difference would be that Trump's appeal could move faster, zooming its way to the Supreme Court. The guilty verdicts on the 34 counts would be entered into federal court. The one major difference, however, is that a president can't pardon state court convictions only federal ones.
While Trump was found guilty, he received no fine or jail time because he was elected to the presidency. New York state Judge Juan Merchan said at the time that the only lawful sentence available to him was one that didn't step on the office of the president was an "unconditional discharge" on all counts.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/sarah-k-burris/116151/judge-tells-trump-to-stop-beating-a-dead-horse-in-bid-to-overturn-felony-convictions
In his "All Rise News," long-time legal reporter Adam Klasfeld wrote that after nearly three hours of arguments, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein — an appointee of former President Bill Clinton — was over it.
“I think we are beating a dead horse,” he said.
A jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to hide his hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign.
The Trump team has argued that some of the "evidence" should have been suppressed due to executive privilege and that the case should be removed from New York state court and tried in the federal court. It was an argument that he made during the initial stages of the case to no avail, as he was not president in 2016 when the crimes took place.
Klasfeld explained that if the judge agreed it would hand Trump a victor in his ongoing "crusade to discredit his criminal prosecution."
The problem, however, Klasfeld pointed out, is that very little would change if the case was moved to federal court. The only meaningful difference would be that Trump's appeal could move faster, zooming its way to the Supreme Court. The guilty verdicts on the 34 counts would be entered into federal court. The one major difference, however, is that a president can't pardon state court convictions only federal ones.
While Trump was found guilty, he received no fine or jail time because he was elected to the presidency. New York state Judge Juan Merchan said at the time that the only lawful sentence available to him was one that didn't step on the office of the president was an "unconditional discharge" on all counts.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/sarah-k-burris/116151/judge-tells-trump-to-stop-beating-a-dead-horse-in-bid-to-overturn-felony-convictions
