Summary
New York judge Juan Merchan denied Donald Trump’s request to delay his sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, set for January 10, 2025, just 10 days before his inauguration.
Trump argued for a delay based on pending immunity appeals, but the court rejected the claim, citing repetitive arguments and delays caused by Trump himself.
Prosecutors noted the timing avoids potential legal complications during his presidency.
The judge plans to sentence Trump to an unconditional discharge, leaving him a convicted felon without further punishment.
The case involves hush money payments from 2016.
I still don’t understand how a convicted felon loses the right to vote for president but can still be eligible to run for that office.
Simple: the Founding Fathers never envisaged that a convicted felon would ever have the balls to run for president, much less that anybody would be stupid enough to vote for one, because it’s fucking insane.
Turns out all you need is racism, stupidity, and a massive propaganda machine. I’d like to thank the 150 million idiots who made this possible. I’ll be thinking of you all when the 2nd Great Depression pops off with some sprinkles of pandemic 2.0 on top.
Or that, in true democratic fashion, they belived that the populace knows best. Allowing it or remaining silent could have been intentional. When forming a new government to escape from corruption, you wouldn’t want to create a situation that would outright exclude anyone that the corrupt government labels a felon.
They could never have imagined such vast distribution of misinformation and all three branches being so thouroughly compromised.
I doubt very much that the Founding Fathers had any illusion about the judgment capacity of the populace. If they had, the electoral college wouldn’t exist.
But they did believe that letting the citizens decide, however bad the decision, was the least worst option. And - more relevant to the Trump problem - I’m convinced they believed there was a level of stupidity and lack of morals below which even the most uneducated, most foolish citizenry could never stoop. That’s why didn’t put guardrails against the unthinkable.
Of course, Trump and the magards proved them wrong: there is no bottom rung on that particular ladder.
Because if felons were unable to be elected the Republicans would try to pre-emptively jail their opponent in every single election. It’s one of few checks against corruption that I believe is still working properly.
You wouldn’t really want being a felon to prevent someone from running for president, because if they couldn’t there’d be a significant incentive to weaponize the DOJ against political rivals.
Sir, this is Lemmy.world. We only do emotional outbursts against republicans and capitalism here. Not rational thought! Please take that somewhere else. /s