{"id":53816,"date":"2024-02-18T07:16:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53816"},"modified":"2024-02-18T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T12:16:20","slug":"a-legal-perspective-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53816","title":{"rendered":"A Legal Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Attorney Jonathan Turley posted an article at The Hill<\/a> about the recent New York verdict against President Trump.<\/p>\n

The article notes that Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is well qualified to evaluate the verdict.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

In laying the foundation for his sweeping decision against former\u00a0President Donald Trump, Judge\u00a0Arthur Engoron\u00a0<\/a><\/span>observed that \u201cthis is a venial sin, not a mortal sin.\u201d Yet, at $355 million, one would think that Engoron had found Trump to be the source of Original Sin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The judgment against Trump\u00a0(and his family and associates) was met with a level\u00a0of unrestrained\u00a0celebration by many in New York that bordered on\u00a0the indecent.\u00a0Attorney General\u00a0Letitia James\u00a0<\/a><\/span>declared not only that Trump would be barred from doing business in New York for three years, but that the damages would come to roughly $460 million once interest was included.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

That makes the damages against Trump greater than the gross national product of some countries, including Micronesia. Yet the court admitted that not a single dollar was lost by the banks from these dealings. Indeed, witnesses testified that they wanted to do more business with Trump, who was described as a \u201cwhale\u201d client with high yield business opportunities.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

In \u201cBonfire of the Vanities,\u201d Tom Wolfe wrote about Sherman McCoy, a successful businessman who had achieved the status of one of the \u201cmasters of the universe\u201d in New York. In the prosecution of McCoy for a hit-and-run, Wolfe described a city and legal system devouring itself in the politics of class and race. The book details a businessman\u2019s fall from a great height \u2014 a fall that delighted New Yorkers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is doubtful Trump will end up as the same solitary figure wearing worn-out clothes before the Bronx County Criminal Court clutching a binder of legal\u00a0papers. But you do not have to feel sorry or even sympathetic for Trump to see this award as obscene. The appeal will test the New York legal system to see if other judges can do what Judge Engoron found so difficult: set aside their feelings about Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York is one of our oldest and most distinguished bars. It has long resisted those who sought to use the law to pursue political opponents and unpopular figures. It will now be tested to see if those values transcend even Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the verdict is not overturned on appeal, it will be interesting to see what its impact will be on the business climate of New York. I suspect that the businesses that President Trump runs in New York City and State bring in considerable tax revenue. New York may have just shot itself in the foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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