Live Updates: Jury Reaches Verdict in Trump Hush-Money Case
www.nytimes.com
Twelve New Yorkers are expected to deliver their verdict shortly in the case against Donald J. Trump. He is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a payment to a porn star.

edit: I have changed my title to match the new NYTimes headline. Sorry about the all caps, I guess they are really excited about this lol

Also shoutout to @SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone who shared a gift article link in the comments. I hope you don’t mind but I kinda stole it and updated the post

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    212·
    5 months ago

    This is going to give a lot of GOP Senators a fig leaf.

    If someone puts a motion in Congress to make it illegal for him to run, a lot of them will vote for it.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      412·
      5 months ago

      I absolutely do not want a ban on felons running for President. In some countries, that is used as a political tool to eliminate political opponents. Putin used that against Navalny.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42479909

      Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been formally barred from competing in next year’s presidential election.

      The Central Electoral Commission has said Mr Navalny was ineligible because of a corruption conviction which he says is politically motivated.

      He has urged his supporters to boycott the March vote.

      Mr Navalny, 41, was widely regarded as the only candidate with a chance of challenging President Vladimir Putin.

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
        16·
        5 months ago

        Not to mention, Trump won’t even be the first person in the USA who could be running for president from jail.

        edit: the first from a major party though, sorry Debs

      • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
        111·
        5 months ago

        His felonies are related to campaing financing, which could be used to narrow down without banning all felons. While I oppose anyone losing the right to vote, I don’t oppose people who are connvicted of treason, insurrection, or felonies related to campaign finance or abuse of elected positions being banned since they have been proven to have undermined democracy.

      • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
        6·
        5 months ago

        I get allowing former felons to run for office - they served time that society said was their punishment. They are done with it.

        But a law that bans a felon that has not completed their punishment is a different story.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        32·
        5 months ago

        We’ve banned them from voting for decades.

        Also, the USA isn’t Russia and Biden isn’t Putin.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      bad law. I’d much rather a law where the candidate has to describe the nature of their past convictions in a written statement submitted with their filing paperwork to run and explain why each one doesn’t affect their ability to run the country.

      Aka reflecting on one’s crimes.

      • Smoogs@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Except assholes like trump see themselves as victims of a witch-hunt and he would write that out , sorry: he will have a lawyer write that out for every one of them. I doubt he has the attention span for it.