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Thread #172859 Message #4206046
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
25-Jul-24 - 04:50 PM
Thread Name: Trump CONVICTED - NO new Trump threads part III
Subject: RE: Trump CONVICTED - NO new Trump threads part III
Trump demanded that the NY hush money case (in which he was found guilty) be set aside. This after the supreme court gave him a lot of cover for future crimes he might commit should he become dictator.
DA Alvin Bragg responds to Trump's demand to kill verdict in hush money case
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg issued a response Thursday to Donald Trump's attempt to dismiss the ruling in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for official acts carried out when president. Justices left it to lower courts to decide what is and is not an "official act."
Trump's lawyers took the ruling and used it to demand that the guilty verdict by the jury in the so-called "hush money case" be vacated. The lawyers asked Judge Juan Merchan if they could file a motion to set aside the verdict and have a hearing.
Bragg's filing claims the New York case had nothing to do with official acts as the crimes took place before he was elected.
The brief says that Trump's arguments are "largely unpreserved." To make such an argument, Trump must have raised them during or before Trial and he didn't, it says.
Responding to the document, former ethics czar and impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen called it "devastating" for Trump's case.
"The Supreme Court official acts immunity decision in Trump v. US is bad enough," he said on X. "But as the DA points out, Trump's efforts to stretch it to cover this UNOFFICIAL acts case is even worse.