Fox News host Mark Levin on Friday criticized the Supreme Court's failure to block President-elect Donald Trump's sentence, saying he was “touted” by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
New York Judge Juan Marchan on Friday sentenced Trump to “unconditional removal”, formally finding the president-elect guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Justice Levin named Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett as responsible for the court's 5-4 decision, saying they justified a “rigged process” and that the high court decided instead of issuing a decision. He said the opportunity to make a final judgment on the case was missed. To deal with it again in the future. (Related: Ellie Honig explains why Trump is 'actually benefiting' from being sentenced)
“This will be remembered as an absolute injustice from the beginning. Now, I was at the doctor's, so I didn't get to hear much of some of the commentary, but I didn't get to hear much of the commentary on the interlocutory appeals or the New York system. and things that we don't normally accept are all absolutely true,” Levin told “America's Newsroom” co-hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino. “The problem here, and I think the other four justices on the court (originalists) understood it, is that the Supreme Court is extremely unlikely to treat this case in the same way as Bush v. Gore. It was important because it was the most extraordinary incident of our time.
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“Three great lawyers explain over and over again why this is the case. You're stuck in a very corrupt, very partisan legal system for some reason. But the best The court has a responsibility to defend the Supreme Court, defend the federal judiciary, and defend the federal Constitution,” Levin continued. “We have left-wing elected bomb-throwing prosecutors, and we have completely corrupt state judges who orchestrated this case every step of the way, just as they orchestrated today's heinous case. Four judges. clearly wanted to take this case. They had good reason to do so. This argument was advanced not only by President Trump's lawyers, but also by former Attorney General Meese's lawyers, he said in court. I have submitted a preliminary document.”
On Thursday, Roberts and Barrett, along with Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor, rejected President Trump's emergency appeal.
“If this court had had Mr. Rehnquist as chief justice, or Mr. Scalia had been on this court, we would have taken the case 6-3 and resolved it. What does it mean to fix that? State. Depending on the appellate court's decision, the case will return to the Supreme Court,” Levin said. “Well, what will the Supreme Court decide? We're not going to take it? Of course they will. What will they say then?” (Related: Dershowitz predicts Supreme Court's 'liberals' will 'go along' for halting cases against Trump)
A New York state appellate court also declined to halt the sentencing hearing. On May 30, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
“They effectively gave their imprimatur to the process. They said, let's run the process as it is. This command, three sentences, or whatever it is, we don't know. That's all there is,” Levin continued. “Let's let the process run. No, we can't let this corrupt process that these gentlemen keep talking about from beginning to end, this corrupt process, especially when we're talking about the next President of the United States. He is the President of the United States, so this court had a rare and extraordinary responsibility to get this right. ”
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