Should Donald Trump fail a second time to be re-elected he faces the very real possibility of jail time and massive financial penalties due to the sheer volume of criminal cases and civil lawsuits that are on hold until after the election. That is the opinion of Syracuse University law professor ...

Should Donald Trump fail a second time to be re-elected he faces the very real possibility of jail time and massive financial penalties due to the sheer volume of criminal cases and civil lawsuits that are on hold until after the election.

That is the opinion of Syracuse University law professor Greg Germain who explained in an interview with Newsweek that the former president’s only path to get out from under the federal cases he now faces is to beat Vice President Kamala Harris in less than two weeks and then push the Department of Justice to drop the cases filed against him.

As Germain stated, the multiple federal cases Trump is facing are solid and his only path to victory may be having them shut down.

Newsweek source: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-legal-cases-georgia-washington-florida-new-york-stormy-daniels-chutkan-cannon-1974406

  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
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    2 months ago

    suspicious in its dishonestly

    What is suspicious or dishonest about my argument? What are your suspicions?

    You’re correct that the voting public wants all those laws, but just doesn’t want them to apply to Trump.

    The point of my illustration layout out the manner in which the voting public controls the courts, is merely to show that the court must be subservient to the will of the voting public.

    Not hearing the cases against Trump is problematic, but it’s less so than a situation where cases against candidates are allowed to undermine elections.

    • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 months ago

      The “voting public” deciding a candidate is above the law isn’t democratic.

      The courts are not a democratic institution, they’re there to apply the laws passed by a democratically elected government in a fair and impartial manner.

      Sure the laws should be subject to the will of the people, but the application of the law should not. That’s nonsense.

      Saying it’s dangerous to apply a law everyone agrees with to a politician who committed crimes is absurd.

      Thanks for the response, now I KNOW you’re just a Trumptard playing “Devils advocate”.

      • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
        1·
        2 months ago

        Sorry chief, you’ve misunderstood my argument. I’m not going to repeat myself ad nauseam so you’re welcome to keep thinking that I’m a Trumptard and that I (along with every judge in the US) am mistaken about the role of courts in democracy and more specifically in elections.