The same thing the state of New York does whenever a felon refuses to surrender to serve their sentence. Issue an arrest warrant and request extradition.
Trump will absolutely corrupt the federal legal system at every level, from day one. But these are state charges.
Edit: random thought. Who would receive the extradition request when a state requests a DC resident is extradited? Is it the feds or the DC city cops? Are all interstate extraditions handled by the Feds? Actually would it be an extradition at all as the trial has already happened?
The Chief of Police of the Metropolitan Police Department shall give notice to the police official or sheriff of the city or county from which the person is a fugitive that the person is so held in the District of Columbia.
Why doesn’t every person in legal jeopardy use the Trump tactic of delay, delay, delay, delay? Seems to work great for him and, here he is at it again.
But legal scholars predict Trump is about to use his new presidential immunity powers to execute an unprecedented legal maneuver, one that will delay his hush-money sentencing, now set for September 18, until well after voters cast their ballots.
Two days before his sentencing, Trump, they predict, will seek something never before allowed in the appellate courts in New York or in most states for that matter: an interlocutory appeal.
Because most don’t have novel issues that have never been heard, or needed to be heard, by SCOTUS, owing to Trump’s status as a former president who has committed crimes.
ETA: Or for that matter, a SCOTUS that was so thoroughly corrupted by its partisan bent that it felt the need to run interference for a candidate or former president.
Ted Kennedy was not “found not guilty”. He pleaded guilty to a lesser-than-manslaughter charge, most likely a plea deal with the prosecutor. That kind of thing happens all the time, to ordinary citizens, though DUI offenses tend to get treated more harshly these days.
Right. Laws get prosecuted differently as decades pass- it used to be that trying for a manslaughter conviction against a driver was really hard- now they happen commonly, even if the driver is sober.
You’re right. It shouldn’t. But then we shouldn’t be in the position of having someone like Trump as a viable candidate for the presidency either. The truth is that I’ve grown rather disillusioned with our institutions and no longer feel as though I can trust them. Never in my life did I imagine a significant number of Americans would find the events of January 6, 2021 to be acceptable. Never in my life did I believe millions of Americans would not only accept an autocrat but willfully support one.
I’m right there with you, buddy. I haven’t given up hope, not entirely, but I feel as though I’ve been rattled to the core.
Because that neat trick only works on criminal cases where the defendant appointed the judge making the ruling. That’s the legal system we have now unfortunately
He’s been pulling it in civil cases, it’s always been a reasonable strategy in civil cases if you have the money to pay lawyers for lots of spurious fillings and countersuing
In criminal cases it’s just a good way to piss off the judge without delaying the verdict in the slightest, unless you appointed the judge
Though the SCOTUS was (or a chunk of them were) and the cause the sentencing delay in the NY trial was the ridiculous immunity ruling by SCOTUS. The rest of trial was incredibly fast and efficiently run despite all Trump’s attempts at delay, which shows what happens in a criminal trial when you pull that BS (and didn’t appoint the judge in question)
And the biggest reason that Trump wants to postpone the sentencing until after the election is because, if it’s still fresh in peoples’ minds on Election Day, it’ll swing a fair number of voters against him. What do you call an October Surprise, when it happens in September and nobody’s surprised by it?
He’s been using money from his PAC to pay his legal fees. The marksrubes donors are donating to his campaign expenses, which in his view, includes keeping him out of jail.