In an effort to "not show bias" Trump's sentencing is delayed till after the election.
In an effort to "not show bias" Trump's sentencing is delayed till after the election.
The decision by Justice Juan M. Merchan means voters will be left in the dark about whether the former president will face time behind bars.
It wouldn't be fair to have your felony conviction negatively impact your opportunities. This is how justice works right?
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Merchan has put the onus on the electorate. We, the American electorate must assure that 11/26 comes AND trump the citizen, unemployed by the government in any office, is sentenced for his felonious crime, for which he was convicted in May of 2024. This is the only way in which justice will be served.
This is the right answer. I'm pissed but even more motivated to make the ballot his sentencing.
Even though the delay itself feels like a crime, I agree that voters giving Republicans a clear trouncing this November will accelerate their irrelevance, and make more severe Trump's sentence. If clear enough, the entire house of cards could come tumbling down.
If clear enough, the entire house of cards could come tumbling down.
OR, since we've once again given special legal protections to the rich and powerful, no matter how repugnant, providing another example of how our justice system works so very differently when you aren't one of the little guys, Trump gets elected, then there's the whole "ZOMG but now he's president-elect" pearl clutching and hand wringing that causes further delays, then he's inaugurated, and then I eventually get to die of old age with a dictator in charge while watching my country slowly morph into something like a mix of Gilead and the German-occupied former-US from Man in the High Castle.
Let me know how I vote even harder than I was already planning to vote. I'm really curious.
Merchan has put the onus on the electorate.
Yeah, to go to his house with torches and pitchforks and run him out of town on a rail for not doing his goddamn job!
I remember this same spiel about Mueller, and the people rebuked trump then, yet still we are here. Again. At least Mueller had a reasonable argument with trump being the sitting president.
And, I think it’s largely a reasonable decision.
This election is the ultimate court of public opinion.