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Thursday, January 09, 2025 9:45:31 PM
Nice start. By the way that's the face of the same f'cking loser who mismanaged the pandemic. Does he strike you as a 'learner'?
Barrett AND Roberts?
Feeling guilty are they about that immunity ruling much? The Orange Moron will be sworn in as a convicted felon.
Trump-Appointed Justice Casts Deciding Vote Against Him
ET TU, AMY
The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s request to delay his Jan. 10 hush-money sentencing in a 5-4 ruling.
Yasmeen Hamadeh
Night News Reporter
Published Jan. 9 2025 9:01PM EST
President-elect Donald Trump’s eleventh-hour attempt to block his Friday sentencing in his New York hush-money case was rejected Thursday by the Supreme Court in a narrowly divided 5-4 ruling.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was appointed by Trump to the high court in 2020, cast the deciding vote along with the court’s liberals and Chief Justice John Roberts.
The president-elect filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court Wednesday hoping to delay his Jan. 10 sentencing, arguing that it would damage “the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government.”
Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh all said they would have granted Trump’s request. However, Roberts and Barrett opted to side against Trump and joined the court’s remaining three justices, who were all appointed by Democratic presidents.
“The alleged evidentiary violations at President-elect Trump’s state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal,” Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson said in a one-paragraph statement explaining their decision.
“The burden that sentencing will impose on the President-elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of ‘unconditional discharge,’” they added, referring to a previous statement by Judge Juan Merchan—who oversaw Trump’s trial—that he did not plan to give the president-elect jail time or probation.
The president-elect’s sentencing hearing is slated for Friday at 9:30 a.m, just 10 days before his upcoming inauguration.
Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in May. Prosecutors alleged that he had partaken in a “scheme” to heighten his chances of winning the 2016 presidential election through a hush-money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, fabricating business records along the way to cover up his tracks.
Despite several attempts from Trump’s attorneys to toss out his conviction, including arguing that he was protected by presidential immunity, Judge Merchan swatted their claims at every turn and ordered the president-elect to appear, either in person or virtually, for a sentencing in New York on Jan. 10.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-justice-amy-coney-barrett-rules-against-trumps-last-ditch-attempt-to-stop-sentencing/
Barrett AND Roberts?
Feeling guilty are they about that immunity ruling much? The Orange Moron will be sworn in as a convicted felon.
Trump-Appointed Justice Casts Deciding Vote Against Him
ET TU, AMY
The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s request to delay his Jan. 10 hush-money sentencing in a 5-4 ruling.
Yasmeen Hamadeh
Night News Reporter
Published Jan. 9 2025 9:01PM EST
President-elect Donald Trump’s eleventh-hour attempt to block his Friday sentencing in his New York hush-money case was rejected Thursday by the Supreme Court in a narrowly divided 5-4 ruling.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was appointed by Trump to the high court in 2020, cast the deciding vote along with the court’s liberals and Chief Justice John Roberts.
The president-elect filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court Wednesday hoping to delay his Jan. 10 sentencing, arguing that it would damage “the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government.”
Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh all said they would have granted Trump’s request. However, Roberts and Barrett opted to side against Trump and joined the court’s remaining three justices, who were all appointed by Democratic presidents.
“The alleged evidentiary violations at President-elect Trump’s state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal,” Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson said in a one-paragraph statement explaining their decision.
“The burden that sentencing will impose on the President-elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of ‘unconditional discharge,’” they added, referring to a previous statement by Judge Juan Merchan—who oversaw Trump’s trial—that he did not plan to give the president-elect jail time or probation.
The president-elect’s sentencing hearing is slated for Friday at 9:30 a.m, just 10 days before his upcoming inauguration.
Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in May. Prosecutors alleged that he had partaken in a “scheme” to heighten his chances of winning the 2016 presidential election through a hush-money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, fabricating business records along the way to cover up his tracks.
Despite several attempts from Trump’s attorneys to toss out his conviction, including arguing that he was protected by presidential immunity, Judge Merchan swatted their claims at every turn and ordered the president-elect to appear, either in person or virtually, for a sentencing in New York on Jan. 10.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-justice-amy-coney-barrett-rules-against-trumps-last-ditch-attempt-to-stop-sentencing/
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