Attorney Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday predicted that some of the “liberals” on the U.S. Supreme Court might join a ruling halting legal cases against President-elect Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, a New York appeals court denied Trump’s request to cancel his Jan. 10 sentencing hearing. Dershowitz predicted that concerns about “fairness and due process” in Trump’s trial would lead the more liberal justices on the Supreme Court to join a ruling in Trump’s favor eventually.
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“He probably didn’t even make the decision,” Dershowitz said about how the payments to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen were described. “The decision was made by some underling to simply list it as [a] legal expense. He didn’t deduct it. He just listed it. I think there was a chart, a fall-down thing where you can pick one or two [or] three or four, and one of them was legal experts. It was checked. It’s not a crime. That’s just not a crime. Again, Thomas Jefferson [said] for something to be a crime [that] the statute has to be so clear that a reasonable person could understand it if he reads it, while running.”
“I’m sitting!” Dershowitz said, adding Trump got a good laugh about the Thomas Jefferson quote.
A Manhattan jury on May 30 found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has been unable to appeal the verdict, but Dershowitz said the appeal would likely succeed.
“The question is, will the appellate courts do the right thing?” Dershowitz asked. “Now, I think the Supreme Court of the United States will do the right thing, and it wouldn’t surprise me if some of the liberals went along, because a liberal was supposed to be concerned about fairness and due process. We’re supposed to be concerned about the Constitution. We’re not supposed to be concerned with partisan outcomes.”
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, appointed by President Joe Biden, joined five of the high court’s more conservative justices in a ruling that the Department of Justice used an overly broad interpretation of a statute against some of the defendants involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 disturbance at the U.S. Capitol building.
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Jackson and Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan all joined the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning a Colorado Supreme Court decision removing Trump from the ballot citing the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause.”
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