Summary
Donald Trump’s re-election raises questions about the fate of his ongoing legal battles.
Facing 34 felony convictions and several federal and state charges, Trump could attempt to leverage presidential immunity to delay or dismiss cases.
Judge Juan Merchan will soon rule on whether immunity applies to Trump’s New York case involving hush-money payments, potentially canceling his sentencing.
While Trump can self-pardon federal charges, he has no such power in state cases like Georgia’s election interference trial, which may remain on hold until his term ends.
Civil lawsuits, including those for sexual abuse and fraud, are still viable under a Supreme Court precedent allowing presidents to be sued.
I actually don’t think there’s any uncertainty. He’s been quite clear about what he’ll do. He’ll kill all federal cases and ongoing federal investigations, pardon himself for everything he can pardon himself for, and all of the state proceedings will be paused until after his term. In the meantime he’ll “investigate,” threaten, and bully anyone involved in the various state cases, and given his age it is incredibly unlikely that legal proceedings will ever result in justice for his myriad crimes.
state proceedings will be paused until after his term
Yes, I full expect the 34 counts sentencing by Merchan to be placed on hold until Jan. 21st, 2029. I’m surprised anyone is confused on this.
Trump won, he gets to get off scot-free from all the charges and investigation. That was literally the reason Trump ran.
Civil lawsuits
Well maybe. Depends with the new SCOTUS presumed immunity. Official acts wasn’t well defined and while no one is thinking rape is an official act, the manner by which the evidence was collected can be questioned.
At this rate, the civil stuff might continue, but there’s going to be so much resistance to the proceedings that they will effectively look as not even happening. The President can delay court motions because “I’m doing President stuff rn” and the Court has to presume that’s true. Rise and repeat until his second term is over.
Come on. You fucking know what’s going to happen. “Uncertainty”, fuck off.
Oh you mean that same legal system that would have nailed one of our proverbial balls to the wall if we had a list of so many charges like that?
The one that would never, EVER let us wait a few months until some job promotion or something similar was over?
Well I’ll make this easy for you, that same corrupt ass stinking piece of shit system is gonna let this fucker go Scott free on all his crimes. Maybe a few fines.
Land of the free
And half the population cheered it on.
Humans are a fucking disease and the planet would be better off without us.
This shit is why New York should’ve already sentenced and imprisoned him.
Like many others, New York corrupted themselves treating Trump with partisan kid gloves, all the while trying to gaslight us that they were doing the opposite.
There’s no uncertainty. It’s over. He’s now completely immune. He’s going to get off scot-free from all of it.
Just proves that if you’re wealthy (and a white man) the laws don’t apply
