Constitutional legislation professor Jonathan Turley weighed in on Letitia James’ newest transfer to grab Trump’s property.
Marxist New York Lawyer Basic Letitia James on Thursday took the initial step to grab Trump’s property. She filed judgments in Westchester County the place Trump’s non-public property and golf course is positioned.
President Trump has till Monday to both pay the judgment or persuade the appellate court docket to permit him to defer the cost pending attraction.
Turley stated James’ effort to grab his property and padlock Trump Tower will not be more likely to occur as a result of Trump’s properties are advanced partnerships with leveraged debt.
“The penalty handed down is absurd,” Turley stated to Fox Enterprise host Larry Kudlow.
“These properties are partnerships, they’ve leveraged debt – all of that must be unraveled. So these aren’t simply this, , the one-to-one Trump versus James kind of equation. So in an effort to seize that property, she’s going to be pulled into court docket, there’s going to be challenges. It’s not going to occur in a single day. Whereas everyone seems to be celebrating this concept that she’s going to padlock Trump Tower. It’s not more likely to occur, and it’s actually not more likely to stay very lengthy.”
Turley continued, “The opposite factor is that she could possibly be harming the worth of the property that she’s attempting to grab with a few of these actions. I don’t suppose that issues to her, but it surely would possibly matter to a court docket.”
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Trump’s authorized staff has filed an attraction and requested a keep on the huge $464 million judgment.
On Thursday Trump’s attorneys despatched a letter to the Appellate Division of New York’s Supreme Court docket and asserted Letitia James’ actions are “unconstitutional.”
“It will be utterly illogical — and the definition of an unconstitutional Extreme Advantageous and a Taking — to require Defendants to promote properties in any respect, and particularly in a ‘hearth sale,’ so as to have the ability to attraction the lawless Supreme Court docket judgment, as that might trigger hurt that can’t be repaired as soon as the Defendants do win, as is overwhelmingly possible, on attraction,” Trump’s lawyer Cliff Robert wrote.
Trump’s lawyer additionally stated Letitia James’ demand that Trump pay the judgment in full in an effort to attraction is “unreasonable, unjust, and unconstitutional (beneath each the Federal and New York State Constitutions) bond situation, which might trigger irreparable hurt and foreclose any assessment of Supreme Court docket’s deeply flawed resolution on this case.”
Far-left New York Decide Arthur Engoron on Thursday additionally ruled Trump should inform a court-appointed monitor *prematurely* about his effort to safe attraction bonds in Letitia James’ Soviet-style fraud case with no sufferer.
The unbiased court docket monitor, Barbara Jones, is a former federal choose appointed by Invoice Clinton.
