On Wednesday’s broadcast of “Hannity” on FNC, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) strongly criticized New York’s legal pursuit of former President Donald Trump, who is expected to be the Republican nominee for president. Cruz, a Texas Republican, argued that Judge Juan Merchan of the New York State Supreme Court seemed to disregard the Constitution’s relevance within the state.
“Well, listen, Sean, I’ve got good news and bad news,” he said. “The good news is the exchange you were just having with Jonathan Turley is exactly right. We now know to a virtual certainty that no conviction will be upheld on appeal. That the judge today committed I think clear reversible error. These jury instructions were nonsense. Now, here’s the bad news. The bad news is this has been a kangaroo court from the beginning. This is a wildly partisan prosecutor who hates Donald Trump, who came with a political objective of going after Donald Trump and we now know from these jury instructions that this judge is every bit the partisan that the prosecutor is.”
“And he knows this is a reversible error,” Cruz continued. “As you noted, Ramos versus Louisiana clearly held in 2020 that every element of the crime must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, must be unanimous by the jury and yet this judge says it doesn’t matter, not in New York. The Constitution does not apply in New York, which means if we get a conviction, it will be reversed on appeal, but the judge doesn’t care.”
“The prosecutor doesn’t care,” he added. “Nobody cares because this is not about law. This is not about criminal justice. This is about politics. This is all about the press conference, the national address that Joe Biden has scheduled to give from the White House where he gloats, we’ve now convicted Donald Trump. This is all about November. We are watching election interference. This is the most blatant case of election interference that we’ve ever seen in our country’s history.”
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