Summary
New York judge Juan Merchan denied Donald Trump’s request to delay his sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, set for January 10, 2025, just 10 days before his inauguration.
Trump argued for a delay based on pending immunity appeals, but the court rejected the claim, citing repetitive arguments and delays caused by Trump himself.
Prosecutors noted the timing avoids potential legal complications during his presidency.
The judge plans to sentence Trump to an unconditional discharge, leaving him a convicted felon without further punishment.
The case involves hush money payments from 2016.
There is some twisted logic to this. Your’e right, the system is broken, but this decision potentially avoids the constitutional crisis of whether a president can pardon themself. It may also make an appeal less likely. In short, it may be the best way to make the conviction stick. Now, what good is a conviction if there’s no punishment? The only thing I can think of that would have any impact on Trump is civil liability stemming from a criminal conviction.
Without punishment or rehabilitation, it doesn’t matter like you said. It’s the most in our faces it could possibly get, different rules apply. I forgot where I read or heard it, and it’ll be paraphrased:
The Constitution is just a piece of paper. It doesn’t mean a fucking thing if people do not back up it’s intent. And the people who are supposed to be are willingly neglecting their duty/oath to do so.
We were already an oligarchy in a trenchcoat pretending to be a democracy, we’re well beyond that now. Shit will get grim.