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Trump’s attorneys wrote in a 55-page brief, made public on Thursday, that a jury’s verdict that Trump was guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records should also be tossed out, urging Judge Juan Merchan to correct “injustices” in light of the high court’s landmark decision.
The attorneys also scolded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the elected Democrat who is leading the prosecution, for shutting down Trump’s initial arguments about presidential immunity violations in the case, which Trump’s team raised in March. “Rather than wait for the Supreme Court’s guidance, the prosecutors scoffed with hubris at President Trump’s immunity motions and insisted on rushing to trial despite the fact that ‘no court has ever been faced with the question of a President’s immunity from prosecution,'” the attorneys wrote.
Bragg’s office “urged this Court to front-run the Supreme Court on a federal constitutional issue with grave implications for the operation of the federal government and the relationships between state and federal officials. The record is clear: DANY was wrong, very wrong,” the attorneys continued.the hearing after Trump began the process of fighting his charges on immunity grounds.
Bragg’s team has until July 24 to submit its responses, and Merchan has said he will issue a decision on whether to drop Trump’s charges on Sept. 6.This story is developing.
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