No matter how much one detests the former president, every defendant deserves due process, including recourse to appeal.
New York Attorney General Letitia James was poised to start seizing former president Donald Trump’s assets this week — but an appeals court on Monday, rather than one totaling $464 million, to appeal a civil judgment against him and his family business. This might seem like another example of courts helping Mr. Trump escape punishment by exploiting the judicial system’s niceties.
No matter how much one disapproves of Mr. Trump, or wishes that his presidential ambitions fail, every defendant deserves due process, including recourse to appeal. That is true even with former presidents who are as unpopular in a particular jurisdiction as Mr. Trump is in New York — and even in civil cases such as the one in question. Judges and juries err.
The original price of appeal in this case was massive. Mr. Trump’s lawyers claimed last week that they tried to getto post a sufficient bond, but none would accept real estate as collateral. Many banks have stopped working with Mr. Trump, who has a history of reneging on creditors. Even billionaires tend not to have hundreds of millions of dollars in cash on hand. Liquidating properties to free up money cannot happen overnight.
But this case differs from his criminal cases in key respects; one is that he cannot make it to go away if he becomes president again. Moreover, Mr. Trump’s New York properties will still be there after he exhausts the appeals process, and the money is not for restitution to pay crime victims. Though Mr. Trump was found liable for misstating the values of his properties and other assets by up to $2.2 billion a year from 2011 to 2021, he paid back the loans in question.
Mr. Trump might eventually be forced to pay the full judgment. In the meantime, allowing him to exhaust his legal options without pushing him toward bankruptcy is the fair and correct outcome — as it would be for any other American in the same situation.Follow the misinformation trail about Tyson Foods’ hiring
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