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From the Slate link above: If Trump asks, there’s a good chance that an appeals court, and maybe even the United States Supreme Court, will delay the sentencing, effectively until after his presidency. To begin with, Merchan had months and months to decide to sentence Trump. By waiting until the last minute, he’s putting all the courts in a bind.

From the generally left-leaning Rick Hasen: Merchan’s concern for the rule of law and his condemnation of Trump’s attack on the judiciary are well stated. But his timing puts higher courts in an impossible bind and his ruling is not likely to be well received by a Supreme Court especially protective of presidential power. (my bold) https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/judge-merchan-sentence-trump-no-prison-time-inauguration.html

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK Jan 8 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent a New York state court from sentencing him for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star. "This court should enter an immediate stay of further proceedings in the New York trial court to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the presidency and the operations of the federal government," his lawyers wrote in a filing made public on Wednesday. On Tuesday, a New York appeals court denied his effort to halt sentencing scheduled for Friday in New York state court in Manhattan. In Wednesday's filing, his lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to immediately order a stay in the case, as he seeks an appeal to resolve questions of presidential immunity. They said they had simultaneously asked the state's highest court for the same emergency relief. https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-asks-us-supreme-court-pause-new-york-hush-money-case-2025-01-08/

There was no better training for that than in the Twitter old days when you could post only a maximum 140 characters.

Dolly Parton has been married to her husband for almost 60 years. Why did she marry him? Dolly was "surprised and delighted" that this tall, handsome man looked at her face when they were talking—"a rare thing for me," she said—and "seemed to be genuinely interested in finding out who I was and what I was about." https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a43321/dolly-parton-carl-dean-love-story/

You got your conspiracies -- I got mine. Before I never heard of Hanson -- but I knew about Selma.

Conspiracies? Maybe he meant the RAISIN conspiracy. Hanson is from Selma, CA where his family has owned a farm/ranch since the late 1800's. With 90 percent of U.S. raisins produced within eight miles of Selma, the city adopted the slogan “Raisin Capital of the World” in 1963. * The conspiracy involves the agricultural marketing order whereby grape/raisin farmers are required to keep a bumper raisin crop off the market to stabilize prices. It went all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that a government program dating to the Great Depression meant to increase in raisin prices by keeping some of them off the market amounted to an unconstitutional taking of private property by the government. HORNE ET AL. v. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/14-275.html * https://sjvcogs.org/valleywide_activities/downtown-selma

OK.

I just posted that to show that a lot of his current rhetoric has been in place a long time and is nothing new for him.

As of now, the bigger constraint on the Trump agenda will likely not be from the Democrats but from the extreme right Republicans in the House and 3+ RINO's in the Senate some of whom voted for Trump's Senate impeachment conviction in 2023

To me, MAGA means Make America Great AGAIN so that implies that America once was great, it ain't great now, and some at least feel they have the way to make it great once more. Following the Central Park 5 incident, Donald J. Trump personally placed this Newsday ad May 1 , 1989: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6131533/trumpdeathpenaltyad05011989.pdf

Some of the frequent topic starters in the Pub Forum make me think of the famous line the Author Mary McCarthy said of the playwright Lillian Hellman: “Every word she writes is a lie—including ‘and’ and ‘the.’ ”

As per topic "Does your Thai wife or girlfriend ever foot the bill?" No.

True. Short schedule on this.

I gave no opinion -- I just quoted one of the top election law specialists in the country who has been on this case as it was ultimately an election law case: Were the payments to Ms. Daniels a personal or election expense.

Good. Your opinion. Maybe more likely the case. This is the opinion of Dr. Hasen from 2 days ago as linked above: If Trump seeks an emergency stay blocking the sentencing—and it will not surprise us if he goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary—we expect he will succeed.

I wouldn't have bothered with even with my first post on this were it not that the generally left-leaning PhD lawyer and election law specialist Dr. Rick Hasen had not given his 'opinion' that Trump has a good chance to stall this.

Trump has indicated on Social media posts this weekend that he intends to fight to postpone the JAN 10 sentencing per Maggie Haberman NY Times.

Who were the primary insurance and reinsurance providers for crashed Jeju Air flight? Policy cover of up to US$1 billion per accident also outlined Jan 03, 2025 The Jeju Air commercial plane that crashed in South Korea on Dec. 29 is covered by Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, along with four other insurers, while AXA XL is its primary reinsurance provider, the airline said in a statement. The policy cover includes liability insurance coverage of up to US$1 billion per accident for a policy running from May 1, 2024, to April 30, 2025. https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/asia/news/breaking-news/who-were-the-primary-insurance-and-reinsurance-providers-for-crashed-jeju-air-flight-519126.aspx

Opinion from the generally left-leaning legal scholar Richard L. Hasen: Sat, January 4, 2025 at 5:31 AM GMT+7 In a surprising move on a lightning-quick timetable that is unlikely to stand if challenged, the New York court that presided over the Stormy Daniels hush money criminal trial of Donald Trump ordered him on Friday to be sentenced on Jan. 10, just 10 days before he will assume the presidency once again. The judge signaled that Trump would get an “unconditional discharge,” meaning no jail time or probation, but sentencing would still cement the former and future president as a convicted felon. If Trump seeks an emergency stay blocking the sentencing—and it will not surprise us if he goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary—we expect he will succeed. https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-possible-explanation-justice-merchan-223158656.html

No -- the 34 varieties felony guilty verdict was a NY State crime.

President-elect Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records -- a Class E Felony in NY State. Other examples of Class E Felonies in NY State are: Criminal mischief in the third degree (painting significant graffiti onto the wall of a building that doesn’t belong to you, for example) Arson in the fourth degree (recklessly damaging someone else’s car with a fire you set, for instance) Computer tampering in the third degree Unlawfully using slugs in the first degree. https://rendelmanlaw.com/what-is-a-new-york-class-e-felony/

The NY statute of limitations for a civil complaint had long expired. This case was only possible because of -- New York's Adult Survivors Act (ASA), which went into effect November 24, 2022, is a landmark law that created a lookback period allowing the adult victims of sexual assault and abuse to pursue time barred claims in court. Survivors have until November 23, 2024, to file a claim under the ASA. https://petersbrovner.brownrice.com/the-constitutionality-of-the-asa/ NB in NY State criminal rape first degree has no statute of limitations.

Standard answer to the above: That's just Trump playing 3-dimensional chess -- he only makes those 'walk back' type comments to put all the leftist folks into a tizzy.

I was excused for not going on the long packed-car family trip. Bribery at work.