On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected Missouri's bid to block former President Trump's criminal sentencing and gag order in his hush-money case.
In a brief order, the justices turned away Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's (R) attempt to go straight to the Supreme Court by invoking its exclusive, original jurisdiction over disputes between two states.
Bailey's state of Missouri directly sued New York, accusing the Empire State of violating Missourians' First Amendment rights and interfering with the presidential election in the state.
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Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, two of the court's leading conservatives, said they would've allowed Missouri to file the suit but “would not grant other relief.” No other justice publicly dissented.
Missouri's lawsuit sought to block Trump's Sept. 18 sentencing and gag order in his hush-money case until after the presidential election.
Trump was convicted in May on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money deal during his 2016 campaign, marking the first-ever criminal conviction of a former U.S. president.
AG Bailey has vowed to appeal, but Trump is scheduled to be sentenced weeks before the election.
The Hill noted, that by suing the state directly, Bailey forced New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) to defend Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's (D) prosecution of the former president.
James's office called on the justices to turn away the suit, criticizing it for containing “bare assertions of bad faith” and arguing it wasn't an actual controversy between two states.
“It's disappointing that the Supreme Court refused to exercise its constitutional responsibility to resolve state v. state disputes,” Bailey wrote on the social platform X, vowing to continue to “prosecute our lawsuit.”
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perhaps if the suit originated from Florida, Trumps actual state of residence.
Well, I guess the Supreme Court Justices can feel safe in their homes now. The left would deal out retribution but we conservatives are obedient even when we disagree. Sad that our country has come to this. I’m 90 years old and the America I grew up in is no more.
The gag order should never have been issued. The corrupt Judge allowed Cohen and Stormy Daniels to trash Trump on National TV Networks and Social Media, but issued the gag order to prevent Trump from telling voters his side of the story in an effort to keep him from winning the election.
The entire case was just a scam. Bragg weaved a misdemeanor charge that the statute of limitations ran out on years ago and a Federal Election law he had no legal authority to charge Trump with into a ridiculous law-fare case. Cohen’s a convicted criminal who plead guilty to perjury. Stormy Daniels signed a sworn affidavit confessing that she had lied about having sex with Trump years ago, but the Judge refused to hear Trump’s attorney’s objections and denied their request to submit the affidavit as evidence. And the Judge’s daughter made her company millions of dollars using the trial for the Democrats campaigns.
Instead of the standard rule of law that all 12 jurors must agree on the verdict for each charge, the judge told them that if they believed he was or might be guilty of any of the 34 charges they must find him guilty of all of them.
The Democrats claim that No One’s Above the Law, but what they actually mean is no one who has the courage to run against is entitled the legal protections of the law.