It’s odd to say that Engoron is afraid to rule against Trump when he already ruled he’s guilty of fraud. I’d also love to see him fined a billion dollars or to spend time in jail for contempt of court but Trump and his team are baiting him to take more extreme action to argue bias on appeal. Keeping his orders beyond reasonable is probably the right move to protect his verdict moving forward. Same goes for Chutkin. She’s probably more reluctant to help Trump open a door to appeal than afraid to have him spend a night in jail or whatever.
It’s odd to say that Engoron is afraid to rule against Trump when he already ruled he’s guilty of fraud. I’d also love to see him fined a billion dollars or to spend time in jail for contempt of court but Trump and his team are baiting him to take more extreme action to argue bias on appeal. Keeping his orders beyond reasonable is probably the right move to protect his verdict moving forward. Same goes for Chutkin. She’s probably more reluctant to help Trump open a door to appeal than afraid to have him spend a night in jail or whatever.
Judge baiting should itself be contempt.
This is exactly it. People expecting Thor’s hammer to drop are mistaken.
What they don’t understand is it already dropped. He was found liable and this is just sentencing.
Engoron is playing this smart AF.
You’re not wrong there, but people are probably more worried about the Federal cases where this hasn’t happened yet.
Same reason, judge has let all those idiot expert witnesses and let them spout off to a degree. Trying to leave no room for appeal.