Donald Trump’s lawyers will try to persuade a New York appeals court Thursday to throw out his hush money conviction, two years after it made history.

The conviction, on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to obscure a $130,000 payment to adult film performer Stormy Daniels, continues to nettle Trump enough that he denounced it on social media as recently as September. The president denies any wrongdoing, and he has turned to state and federal courts in hopes of unwinding the verdict.

He is not expected to attend Thursday’s court session.

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[–] 8 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure I'd go that far. I don't think any of the charges usually carry jail time, mostly just fines (these are white collar crimes, after all, not something dangerous like smoking pot alone in the safety of your own home, for example). If he had done his job, Trump would probably only be slightly poorer and more humiliated.

That being said, a judge who presides over a case where a jury has declared the defendant unequivocally guilty and essentially says, "yes, the people have spoken and declared this person guilty, but I'm going over their heads and letting them get off scott free" has no place in this or any other justice system and in my opinion should be barred from ever acting as judge again.

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