He always does

...time to be served starting January 20th , 2029?

I have a dream...

An official duty of a President.

And if it were, Stormy Daniel’s shouldn’t have to pay for defamation as you can’t defame the U.S. Government.

will he nullify the jury's decision

The orange motherfucker will never see the inside of a prison cell, so anything else is just semantics.

IMO, there is absolutely no reason to respect the office of President after a majority of voters decided to trash it. If I were the judge, he'd get the maximum sentence just as a matter of principle, and let his lawyers and the Supreme Court take if from there -- let them take responsibility for trashing our legal system, too.

The rest of us will continue stopping at stop signs, paying our child support, never missing a tax deadline, jumping to answer IRS letters, yielding at yield signs and so much more. He makes a mockery of those of us who follow laws and foster loving community and a strong society! He has made a mockery of our society time and again!

After all, there isn't anything in the Constitution that says he can't serve as President while in prison just as much as there isn't anything that can prevent a convicted felon from running for office.

And since there's a delay between the sentence to prison and the report to that prison date, and probably a stay up until his corrupt court's final exoneration, I will believe in nobody is above the law when I'll see it (which will probably be never).

I hit the wrong button

Merchan is just being publicly neutral about a case that is currently under review.

Of course he’s going to consider Trump’s claims of immunity. He considered all of Trump’s various other claims, too, before ruling against them.

Merchan has made any egregious rulings so far. Let’s wait before pulling out the pitchforks.

$1000 per conviction. Heck, make it $10,000 or $100,000 - it’s not like New York will ever see the money

satisfied with 30 days for each of the 34 guilty judgements. Almost three years in Sing Sing!

Would there be an issue with Judge Merchan just fining the living shit out of Trump to close out the hush money trial and the Georgia and federal cases being continued until January 21, 2029? While it may be DoJ policy to not prosecute a sitting president he isn't one now so the New York court system could do it.

have indicated that for the "hush money" case, these types of charges rarely result in a prison sentence - and particularly when they are a first time offense. Because the "fraud" was associated with "election interference", that "extra" was what transformed what would have been misdemeanor charges, into felony ones (i.e., checks written with the fraudulent intent to quash bad info ahead of an election, so "in furtherance of another crime" ).

Regarding the GA case, I don't know how a state would want to selectively give up "states rights" because if that is the case, then what is the point of state laws?

The federal cases will be going bye bye when the new AG decides to completely drop them.

NO BOND!

...postpone sentencing until he serves his term.

But, yeah, he's gonna get off free.

I’m not so naive that I think he’ll ever serve a day in prison BUT there is nothing about the SCOTUS ruling that says drumpf should be let go for this. If SCOTUS wants to destroy democracy and turn drumpf into a king, and I was a judge, I would make them do their OWN DIRTY WORK. SCOTUS will toss any conviction of that I’m sure. But Marchan should make sure that is on their record. Not his.

And I agree with other posters who says he should just delay sentencing until after drumpf’s term. Let him spend the next four years knowing he’s going to prison when he’s done destroying America.

jmerchan@nycourts.gov

Why not?

But there is a lot of nonsense here.

They are done. The court cases will all implode over the next few weeks.

I know you guys think it would be patriotic for Merchan to continue but it would be suicidal for him, the party and the Country.

If you think he is going to put his safety and freedom on the line to try and rescue us after 75 million people said otherwise, you are crazy.

For what purpose? Even in your wildest dream, he spends a few months in prison before all of it gets unwound. Meanwhile, he would emerge with a strengthened mythology, narrative and thirst for vengeance. Just writing it out reads like an origin story for a super villain.

Merchan has been given an out by the Supreme Court. If he is smart, he will take it. At most I would expect some half measure to keep the court case intact without any ramifications (ie still a felon but no actual punishment) But I don't think that will be the case. What I really expect is a dismissal with a strongly worded statement about being a terrible day for justice, law and order etc.

Call me crazy but it is tilting at windmills to expect otherwise.