(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Trump’s Felony Conviction Sentence Cannot Be Stayed [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-11 Admin correction: This story has been updated to correct a mischaracterization of a previous Trump trial, in which a jury found him liable of sexual abuse in a civil case. One of the putridly amazing aspects of Republican Party regression is their adept ability to reach a new low, just when you think they couldn’t abandon any past cherished principle or politics they just go right ahead and do it, this time the past bulwark principle of law and order. If Trump needs it gone, chuck it over the side, dishonesty, hypocrisy, bullying, and stupidity be damned! They violated Trump’s gag order, they thundered on teevee the justice system was weaponized and rigged, then yelled it was all a sham, sure in their ability that brute force wall-to-wall lying would somehow bury the truth their nominee is now a felon awaiting a jail sentence. Republicans used to be conservatives, who of course wholly embraced the coercive force of the status quo in the law and police, but oh my god now that’s gone too. Of the reeking morass of lying and bullying came the stupidly fatuous rationale that of course the Republican Party felon nominee wouldn't get a jail sentence, typically a first-time convict doesn’t receive one. Oh my god, is Donald Trump a typical convict? He was found liable in a civil trial for sexual abuse. He openly tried to smash the trial and got a gag order for it, which then got violated by his disgusting toadies on the courthouse steps. After, he proclaimed innocence and trashed the judicial system, the attacks on the judge’s daughter (!) still ongoing. If any convict ever begged for a jail sentence it’s Donald Trump, but somehow he’s still sure that acting like a bullying fascist to Judge Juan Merchan will work. There were a few voices out there after Trump became a convicted felon that the result shows the American justice system works, oh my god, please shut up. The federal cases against Trump have been wrecked by regressive Republicans, and the State Georgia case just smashed stop. The New York State case is the only one that worked and will ever do so, it doesn’t matter about any other case if they can’t be adjudicated before the election. What incredible power Judge Juan Merchan now possesses, if he orders Trump jailed there is absolutely no judicial recourse, except the ability to grant a stay upon appeal. That absolutely cannot happen, the whole point of the entire affair was to of course hold a criminal accountable and punish him for it. I’m totally confident it will not happen, but because Trump will be the Republican nominee of course the possibility exists he could win. If he somehow did just forget enforcing the New York sentence, he’ll simply ignore it and make up a rationale that a Presidential nominee can’t be punished or that a President cannot be jailed next year. So much for the vaunted American justice system, the one time it worked on Trump a stay on appeal blew up that chance. I hope with all my soul Judge Merchan sees the immense risks to American justice should a stay be granted, let alone the immense potential waste of adjudication he himself so superbly implemented. He might also feel the tectonic power under his hands to stop this god damn filthy Trump con forever, jail that felon with the Michael Cohen sentence without a stay and just see what the Republicans frantically, desperately try to come up that a convict in a jail cell is the still the Republican nominee. They will fail, even in their all fascist thrashing they cannot pull that one off. Somehow get a new nominee at their convention or, unbelievably, just continue a horrifying regression of having an election with their nominee jailed, their whole election cycle gone down in epic flames. Just like Trump asked to be jailed, they asked for it too, they nominated Trump knowing full well the risks but somehow sure fascist lying and bullying would still get them out of it if things got out of control. For that mistake of galactic stupidity they can get utterly smashed at the ballot box, they simply asked for it. At this point I’m not so foolish as to get my hopes up for any outcome at sentencing, but whatever is handed down a stay absolutely cannot happen, it would render the whole evolution moot. It would also embolden the frantic Republicans even more, after all that Trump still got away with it! We got those liberals again! We went after that Judge’s daughter and it worked! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/11/2246071/-Trump-s-Felony-Conviction-Sentence-Cannot-Be-Stayed?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/