Attorney Alan Dershowitz predicted Tuesday that some of the “liberals” on the U.S. Supreme Court may join in a ruling blocking the case against President-elect Donald Trump.
The New York Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied President Trump’s request to cancel his January 10 sentencing hearing. Dershowitz predicted that the Supreme Court’s more liberal justices would eventually join in ruling in Trump’s favor because of concerns about “fairness and due process” in Trump’s trial. did. (Related: Alan Dershowitz outlines why he thinks lawsuit against Donald Trump’s lawyers should not proceed)
“He probably didn’t even make a decision” about paying Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, Dershowitz said. “The decision to simply list it as follows was taken by some of our subordinates. [a] Legal fees. He didn’t deduct it. He just listed them. I think there was a chart, a falldown, where you could select one or two [or] There were three or four people, one of whom was a legal expert. Checked. It’s not a crime. It’s not just a crime. I say it again, Thomas Jefferson. [said] for something to become a crime [that] The law must be so clear that a reasonable person can read it while running and understand it. ”
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“I’m sitting down!” Dershowitz said, adding that Trump laughed out loud about Thomas Jefferson’s words.
On May 30, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. President Trump has not been able to appeal the ruling, but Dershowitz said his appeal is likely to be successful.
“The question is, will the appellate court do the right thing?” Dershowitz asked. “Right now, I think the U.S. Supreme Court will make the right decision, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some liberals agree, because liberals are supposed to value fairness and due process. We should be concerned about the Constitution. We should not be concerned about partisan outcomes.”
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, appointed by President Joe Biden, ruled that the Justice Department applied an overly expansive interpretation of the statute to some defendants involved in the January 6 incident. , joining five of the high court’s more conservative justices. , the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. (Related: CNN panel erupts as lawyer reminds Democrats that Democrats “went after” Trump after panelists called for pardon for Liz Cheney)
Justice Jackson, Juror Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan join together to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to exclude President Trump from the ballot, citing the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause.” joined in the judgment.
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