Following Choose Merchan’s determination to delay former president Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush cash case, CREW president and former federal prosecutor Noah Bookbinder launched the next assertion:
“The Supreme Court docket simply succeeded in delaying accountability for Donald Trump. Its disastrous and legally indefensible determination to offer former presidents wide-ranging immunity supplied Trump with a mechanism to push sentencing in his New York case till simply earlier than the election, main Choose Merchan to appropriately postpone sentencing till after the election and permit the events to litigate the problems the unlucky immunity determination has raised.
Finally, although, this sentencing ought to and can proceed. This prosecution was not based mostly on official presidential acts and won’t be derailed by the immunity determination. Trump’s misplaced efforts to get rid of the case based mostly on the immunity choices must be shortly and comprehensively disposed of, after which sentencing ought to transfer ahead, as it will for another American. Nobody, not even Donald Trump, is above the legislation, regardless of one of the best efforts of his allies on the Supreme Court docket.”
