Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday that New York Justice Juan Merchan’s decision to postpone sentencing President-elect Donald Trump following his conviction was “clever but wrong” and violated Trump’s constitutional rights.
Merchan ruled Monday night that Trump did not have any presidential immunity in the case centered around a $130,000 payout to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Dershowitz said that Merchan was keeping Trump from appealing his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsification of business records. (RELATED: Alan Dershowitz Outlines How Trump Lawyers Should Handle Bragg’s Plan To ‘Freeze’ Business Docs Case)
“What Merchan rules was that no, no, no of any of the actions that were introduced into evidence were private actions, actions outside of his role as president,” Dershowitz said. “Basically, what I’m saying is the whole case was…
