Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America on June 14, 2024. June 14th is Trump's 78th birthday.( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
THE TRUMPSHANK REDEMPTION
Trump’s sentencing was postponed until at least September, in the latest fallout from the Supreme Court’s hair-raising immunity ruling.
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Disgraced former President Trump, a man who spent his entire life failing upwards, caught yet another lucky break on Tuesday. Barely a week before he was due to be sentenced for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush-money case, he scored his latest last-minute reprieve. Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan agreed with Trump’s lawyers that he’ll need time to consider whether the Supreme Court’s decision to grant the president sweeping criminal immunity for official acts might impact this case. Merchan plans to answer that question on Sept. 6th, before potentially sentencing Trump on Sept. 18th.
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Trump’s crimes in New York involved paying off an adult film star, which is no one’s idea of an official presidential duty. Still, some of the relevant conduct occurred while Trump was in the White House, noted Kate Shaw, co-host of Crooked’s Strict Scrutiny, in an appearance on this morning’s What A Day podcast. Trump’s lawyers will now try to argue, across all four of his criminal cases, that “this new ruling changes everything,” Shaw said. The legal system will need a moment to digest the Supreme Court’s expansive ruling and decide exactly what it means for Trump in each case. At the very least, Trump will win further courtroom delays in an election year — as he just did in New York.
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The Supreme Court’s decision sent shockwaves through both legal and political spheres, prompting Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the three dissenting liberal justices, to warn it makes the president “a king above the law.” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow dubbed the decision a “death squad ruling,” for its potential to make a future president dangerously unaccountable. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) vowed to file articles of impeachment against the Supreme Court justices, saying the court is in the throes of a “corruption crisis beyond its control.”
If Trump wins this election, he may avoid criminal accountability forever.
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