On Wednesday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) slammed New York state’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump, who is presumed to be the Republican presidential nominee.
The Texas Republican said New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Marchan, who is presiding over the case, acted as if the Constitution did not apply to New York state.
“Sean, I’ve got good news and bad news,” he said. “The good news is that the communications you had with Jonathan Turley are exactly that. The conviction will almost certainly not be upheld on appeal. I believe the judge today made clear and reversible error. The jury instructions are nonsense. Now the bad news. The bad news is that this has been a camouflage court from the beginning. This prosecutor is an extremely partisan who hates Donald Trump, and he’s here with the political goal of taking Donald Trump down, and the jury instructions make it clear that this judge is just as partisan as the prosecutor.”
“And he knows this is a reversible error,” Cruz continued. “As you pointed out, the 2020 case Ramos v. Louisiana clearly held that every element of a crime must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt and the jury must be unanimous, but this judge is saying that doesn’t matter in New York. The Constitution doesn’t apply in New York, which means that even if you get a conviction, it can be overturned on appeal, and the judge doesn’t care.”
“The prosecutors don’t care,” he added. “Nobody cares because this is not a legal issue. This is not a criminal justice issue. This is a politics issue. This is all about a press conference, a speech to the nation that Joe Biden is going to give from the White House, where he’s bragging that he got Donald Trump convicted. This is all about November. We are watching election interference. This is the most blatant case of election interference in the history of our country.”
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