Fox News ¦ Trump sentencing could be delayed after SCOTUS ruling

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Fox News ¦ Trump sentencing could be delayed after SCOTUS ruling.

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00:00And we learned just this hour that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has written

00:16to Judge Juan Marchand.

00:18He says that he is not opposed to postponing President Trump's sentencing in his New York

00:23criminal trial and conviction.

00:26Right now, that is still set for next Thursday, July 11th.

00:30Leo Terrell, attorney and Fox News contributor is here.

00:33Leo, what do you make of all of this?

00:37What I make of all of this is simply this.

00:39The Supreme Court got it right.

00:40It is a great day for the rule of law and we're turning away from being a banana republic.

00:46Dagan, let me be as clear as possible.

00:48This wasn't a ruling just for Trump.

00:50You correctly stated it.

00:51This is a ruling to protect the office of the presidency from weaponization by the judicial

00:58system and by others who want to go after a former president.

01:02Let me be very clear.

01:03This ruling today, this decision by Alvin Bragg, is because he recognized the fact that

01:09some of the evidence in that fake New York hush money case was inadmissible.

01:14They were official acts.

01:15And if I was Alvin Bragg and Jack Smith, I would throw him a towel.

01:19These cases are dead.

01:22They were motivated simply because they do not want President Trump on the ballot.

01:27One interesting thing is, and you keep hearing this over and over again from the left, the

01:34president is now a king.

01:36And this was in Judge Sonia Sotomayor's dissent, I believe.

01:41But what about the checks and balances against the president?

01:46And the Wall Street Journal editorial board writes about this.

01:49How about Congress?

01:50And the judiciary?

01:52They still exist.

01:54The impeachment power still exists.

01:56Elections are the ultimate check on abusive presidents, the Wall Street Journal writes.

02:02And how could they be shocked about this decision in the first place?

02:06The Supreme Court just followed up on the 1982 opinion, Nixon v. Fitzgerald, which dealt

02:12with civil suits.

02:16You're absolutely right.

02:1735 years of being a civil rights lawyer.

02:18Let me be as clear as possible.

02:21The Supreme Court just simply followed the rules and regulations of the Constitution.

02:25You just laid out all the options available to the American people.

02:29Impeachment.

02:30You have impeachment there.

02:32You have the rule of law to vote out a candidate or a candidate who's running for office.

02:38Every avenue is available.

02:40And I want to be clear, Biden's corrupt open border policy is protected under this rule

02:46of law.

02:47And so what you have, you have sour grapes on the part of the Democrats, Dagan.

02:51They're mad.

02:52Why?

02:53Because they want to take President Trump off the ballot.

02:55I'm old enough to remember the Colorado Supreme Court wanted to take him off the ballot.

03:01Thank goodness for the Supreme Court.

03:02Thank goodness that the Supreme Court is above the fray of politics.

03:06And we have to make sure that the rule of law applies.

03:10The Democrats aren't done.

03:11They're going to try everything possible to try to prevent us, the American people,

03:17from voting for President Trump.

03:19Well, one progressive congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, wants to drag the high court

03:25down into the political muck.

03:28She says that she's planning to file articles of impeachment following the Supreme Court

03:32ruling.

03:33She posted on X quote, the Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond

03:39its control.

03:41Today's ruling represents an assault on American democracy.

03:44It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.

03:49I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.

03:54The House is in recess until July 8th.

03:56If she files, they would likely go to the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee for review.

04:04Articles against whom, bless her heart.

04:08I think she's trying to threaten the Supreme Court justices.

04:12That article proposal will go nowhere.

04:16You know what AOC's upset with?

04:18AOC's upset with people like myself and over 50% of this country who want to vote for President

04:24Trump.

04:25That's why she's mad.

04:26You're talking about democracies at issue?

04:28The Democrats do not want the American people to vote for President Trump.

04:32And the Supreme Court said, no, that's not going to happen.

04:35The American people will have the opportunity to vote and elect President Trump as our next

04:41president in November of 2024.

04:43And what they're also trying to do, Dagan, is deflect from an incompetent, cognitively

04:49declined president who cannot articulate a thought.

04:54I challenge President Biden and the Democrats for him to appear before the American public

05:00without cue cards, without a teleprompter, and stand and answer questions for an hour.

05:06He can't do it.

05:08Before we go, do you think that Judge Marshawn will delay the sentencing next week?

05:14Oh, yes, he has to.

05:17Because you have newly acquired information and law.

05:20He has to consider it.

05:21If he doesn't, he will become a laughingstock.

05:24He has an obligation.

05:25So Bragg's acknowledgement that he has no opposition, I want to be very clear to the

05:30Fox viewers, that sentencing will be delayed and there will be a hearing on whether or

05:35not this motion should be set aside.

05:38Big victory for President Trump.

05:40Leo Terrell, always a pleasure, sir.

05:43Thank you for being here.

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