Judge Delays Trump’s Sentencing Until Nov. 26, After Election Day
www.nytimes.com
The decision by Justice Juan M. Merchan means voters will be left in the dark about whether the former president will face time behind bars.

It wouldn’t be fair to have your felony conviction negatively impact your opportunities. This is how justice works right?

  • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
    64·
    4 months ago

    What a crock of fucking shit. We all knew this was coming. Once again, this little cockroach has escaped the consequences of his actions, and it surprises nobody at this point. Fuck you Merchan, you traitorous fucking coward…

    • Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      321·
      4 months ago

      This was the expected outcome. There are no consequences for the wealthy and affluent in the US, only for the poor. Look at the 2008 financial collapse, there wasn’t any real jail time for any of those involved but we can’t even begin to cover the number of suicides their actions caused.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    173·
    4 months ago

    Pathetic.

    I’m stating it right now. I am officially running for President in the 2024, 2028, 2032, and 2036 elections. Therefore, to avoid the appearance of impropriety and not show political bias, the criminal court system cannot send me to jail until after the 2036 election, regardless of what crimes I commit or am convicted of in the mean time. The crimes I commit between now and then are irrelevant. I mean, you can convict me of those crimes if you’d like. You just can’t punish me for it because I’m a Presidential Candidate under the Trump standard set forth by this judge.

    This act of “not showing bias” goes to show the exact bias that the entire court system continues to give to Trump: giving him special privileges that exactly zero other people in this country would have extended to them in the same situation. And in one fell swoop, Merchan shows that he’s absolutely no better than the rest of them; when push comes to shove, every single one of them will go out of their way to avoid holding Trump accountable for anything, all the while wondering why he keeps doing it.

    He’s doing it because it works. He’s doing it because you let him. He’s doing it because you are unwilling to do anything to stop him.

    And he’s going to keep doing it because you continue to let him win. Fuck this judge and fuck every other judge who continues to rule that Trump gets special treatment as if it’s some kind of fucking birthright.

  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    Shouldn’t being a convicted felon affect one’s candidacy?

    Should the US government also pay candidates to have aesthetic surgeries? Being ugly might affect their candidacy!

  • LinksMasterSw0rd@lemmy.world
    24·
    4 months ago

    He will continue to shit all over the world and get away with it. Absolute insanity. Anyone else on the street would get put away tomorrow and forever.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
    34·
    4 months ago

    In an effort to not show bias they monumentally fucking failed. Not showing bias would mean following the fucking law regardless of who the person was or what their agenda was.

  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
    721·
    4 months ago

    Merchan has put the onus on the electorate. We, the American electorate must assure that 11/26 comes AND trump the citizen, unemployed by the government in any office, is sentenced for his felonious crime, for which he was convicted in May of 2024. This is the only way in which justice will be served.

    • OutsizedWalrus@lemmy.world
      15·
      4 months ago

      And, I think it’s largely a reasonable decision.

      This election is the ultimate court of public opinion.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      4 months ago

      I remember this same spiel about Mueller, and the people rebuked trump then, yet still we are here. Again. At least Mueller had a reasonable argument with trump being the sitting president.

    • ganksy@lemmy.world
      292·
      4 months ago

      This is the right answer. I’m pissed but even more motivated to make the ballot his sentencing.

      • lettruthout@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        4 months ago

        Even though the delay itself feels like a crime, I agree that voters giving Republicans a clear trouncing this November will accelerate their irrelevance, and make more severe Trump’s sentence. If clear enough, the entire house of cards could come tumbling down.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          If clear enough, the entire house of cards could come tumbling down.

          OR, since we’ve once again given special legal protections to the rich and powerful, no matter how repugnant, providing another example of how our justice system works so very differently when you aren’t one of the little guys, Trump gets elected, then there’s the whole “ZOMG but now he’s president-elect” pearl clutching and hand wringing that causes further delays, then he’s inaugurated, and then I eventually get to die of old age with a dictator in charge while watching my country slowly morph into something like a mix of Gilead and the German-occupied former-US from Man in the High Castle.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      Merchan has put the onus on the electorate.

      Yeah, to go to his house with torches and pitchforks and run him out of town on a rail for not doing his goddamn job!