I’d like to introduce you to Jed Rubenfeld, Professor of Advanced Constitutional Law at Yale Law School. Now you might think that most/all of these pinheads in academia are all Far-Left nuts, and you’d be right about most. But from what I can tell about Professor Rubenfeld, he’s got his head screwed on straight and he’s a critical and fair thinker. And he just put out a brilliant analysis on exactly what President Trump’s legal team needs to do to overturn this Guilty Verdict before the election. We have over 5 million readers each month here at WLTReport and I know members of the Trump team read what we post, so please make sure this gets to the right people in President Trump’s inner circle. Just this morning, Patrick Bet-David had Tom Fitton on his show and Pat kept asking Tom who the best legal experts are who could assist President Trump with making the right moves here.  Who are the best and most aggressive. Tom didn’t know, and as much as I like Tom Fitton and appreciate what he has done, he didn’t do himself any favors going on PBD’s pod this morning.  He appeared mostly uninformed and he just kept adopting what Pat said.  It was clear PBD was about 5 steps ahead of him throughout the whole interview. But I bring that up because Pat was asking for EXACTLY what I’m about to show you. A brilliant analysis from Professor Rubenfeld and something President Trump’s legal team needs to implement ASAP. Actually, I should take one step back and say due to breaking news I just covered a few minutes ago, it’s POSSIBLE this entire case is thrown out as a mistrial…. If you haven’t seen that yet, read here: TRUMP NEW YORK MISTRIAL? New Letter From Judge Merchan Reveals Jury Pool Tainted! So with that caveat, now allow me to give you Professor Rubenfeld's analysis and we can just consider it our "belt and suspenders" backup plan if the case is now thrown out for a tainted jury. Watch here: Yale Law Professor Has Brilliant Plan for Trump Legal Team to Overturn 'Guilty' Verdict Before the Election "Could Trump actually be put in jail? You bet he could." "Each count of this 34 count indictment has a maximum penalty attached to it of four years. Well, that's four… pic.twitter.com/47neHaqPtB — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 6, 2024 FULL TRANSCRIPT: "Could Trump actually be put in jail? You bet he could." "Each count of this 34 count indictment has a maximum penalty attached to it of four years. Well, that's four times 34. That's a maximum sentence, prison sentence of 136 years." "Will he do that? Of course not. He won't. But could he sentence him to some incarceration? Yes, he could. Will he? Nobody knows." Yale Law Professor Jeb Rubenfield, who teaches Advanced Constitutional Law, counseled the Trump legal team on a course of action that could potentially see his 'guilty' verdict overturned before the 2024 election. "Now, when is sentencing scheduled for? Well, Judge Merchan has set it for July 11th." "Will something happen between then and now? Yes. Trump's team will ask for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict." "They'll ask for Judge Merchan to throw out the jury's verdict and find Trump innocent despite the verdict, and Judge Merchan will turn that down." "Then there will be arguments about what the sentence should be briefing on both sides, possibly even a hearing. Then on July 11th, sentencing will be announced. And at that point, that triggers the Trump team's right to appeal." "To what court would they appeal? Well, they would appeal to New York's appellate level court... And after the appellate court rules, then the case could go up to New York's highest court, which is actually called the Court of Appeals... And after that, the case could go up to the Supreme Court." "And ultimately it might well go to the Supreme Court where finally we will have a definitive, conclusive ruling on whether the conviction was constitutional or not." Professor Rubenfield identified a massive, glaring problem with this legal appeals process. "Of course that would take years, and that's a problem here. Why is it a problem? It's a problem because the election will have taken place and if this conviction is unlawful and unconstitutional, it could have an effect on that election." "There are surveys, many polls in which a substantial number of American voters say they will not vote for Trump if he is convicted of a felony. Many independents say that, many Republicans even say that. If that's true, an unlawful conviction in this case could interfere with and in fact decide the outcome of the next election of the next President of the United States" "Even if the conviction were reversed on appeal years later, that effect could not be undone in legal terms. That's called IRREPARABLE HARM. The irreparable harm, once again, is that a 'convicted felon' could affect the election, could decide the election." "And if so, then District Attorney Bragg and Judge Merchan will have UNLAWFULLY INTERFERED with the election and decided the outcome of the next election through unconstitutional means. And no years long appeal could have any effect on that." This is the critical point that Professor Rubenfield makes: There is another way. "Well, is that where we are? So are we stuck with that possibility? Well, believe it or not, there is one other avenue that the Trump lawyers could pursue. They could sue in federal court and ask for an emergency temporary restraining order." "Restraining order of what? Well, let me tell you something that you might not know. You've probably been reading in the press if you've been reading about this case. The Trump is already a "convicted felon." The jury has convicted him. He's a "convicted felon." "Well, guess what? THAT'S NOT TRUE." "You're not a convicted felon because of a jury verdict. You're not convicted unless the judge enters a judgment of guilt against you. The judge still has the power, as I told you before, to throw out that verdict and enter a judgment of acquittal. You are not convicted until the judge enters that judgment of guilt." "Now in New York, it's very likely that Judge Merchan will enter that judgment of guilt against Trump on the same day that he issued sentencing. That'd be July 11th." "So what would this federal case be about in this federal action? Trump would sue District Attorney Bragg and other state actors and ask the judge, the federal judge, for an emergency temporary restraining order halting Judge Merchan from entering that judgment of guilt until the federal courts have had an opportunity to review and rule on the serious constitutional arguments that exist here." "Let me tell you why I think that might be a very important thing to happen. Because going after, criminally, a former president of the United States and somebody who is running for president now, that's a VERY BAD LOOK for this country." "It's an especially bad look when the folks bring in the case and the judge deciding it are members of the opposing political party. And it's an even worse look when the crime is so unclear that the state is hiding the ball about what the actual charges are right up through the trial and indeed into the trial." "And even now, we don't know exactly what the jury found Trump guilty of. If you're going to go after a former president and somebody who's running for president now the poll leading candidate, if you're a member of the other party and you're going to do that, YOU BETTER HAVE THE GOODS. You better not be pursuing some novel legal theory where you have to hide the ball. It's not even clear what the charges are." "That could be a very dangerous precedent for this country. A very bad and dangerous precedent." "That's why it's so important for a federal court to review the constitutionality of this prosecution and decide, was it constitutional, was it not?" "The only way to achieve that before the election takes place is for the Trump team to file an action in federal court and ask the federal court to temporarily hold off the entry of the judgment of guilt until the federal courts and maybe the Supreme Court itself can on an emergency basis adjudicate the likelihood of success of these constitutional arguments." "If that doesn't happen, then that IRREPARABLE HARM danger that I mentioned before, well that's where we are." "But if it does happen, the nation could get a ruling from the federal courts, even the Supreme Court of the United States, before the election takes place." "Maybe that's what the nation needs and maybe that's what the law requires here. So if I were Trump's lawyer, that's probably what I would do." Thanks for the great work Professor and for the clear-thinking and unbiased presentation! Just the facts ma'am! Or in this case, just the law sir! Thank you! You can Follow Professor Rubenfeld on X here: You can follow Professor @Jed_Rubenfeld on X pic.twitter.com/Dne56D0woX — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 6, 2024 But that's not all.... Now let me give you even more. We first brought you this report a few days ago: Trump’s Game Plan: The Legal Path to Flip His Conviction Trump's Game Plan: The Legal Path to Flip His Conviction I bet CNN wasn't expecting that. Their guest, attorney Mark O'Mara admitted on air that 'there's a number of significant issues' regarding this case. He thinks Trump has a great chance to get this thing flipped. But you see, the usual appeals process for someone convicted in New York state can take almost a year or more. And in New York, you gotta wait till after sentencing to appeal the verdict. When's his sentencing? It's on July 11th. From there, he's got 30 days to file a notice of appeal. Once that notice is in, Trump's legal team usually has six months to get all their paperwork and filings finished. So basically, it sounds like this will drag out until the election in November. CNN reports the likely game plan Trump will follow: The typical appeals process for a convicted defendant in New York state can take almost a year or more. Donald Trump’s lawyers could try to delay the process further after the former president was convicted on 34 felonies on Thursday. Under New York law, any appeal of the verdict​ comes after sentencing. Trump’s sentence date is currently scheduled for July​ 11. As a defendant, Trump then has 30 days to file a notice of appeal. Once that notice is filed Trump’s legal team would typically have six months to complete procedural requirements like filing their appellate argument as well as filing other relevant documents like the trial transcripts. Once the appeal is fully submitted, attorneys for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office would likely be given approximately 30 days to file a response. Trump’s legal team will have one more opportunity to submit a brief in response to the prosecution’s filing soon after that. A five-judge panel for the Appellate Division First Department will then hear oral arguments from both sides and issue a written decision which could take months. The panel is not subject to a deadline. If the lower appeals court ultimately rejects Trump’s appeal and upholds the jury’s verdict, Trump can take it to the Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court. Attorney Mark O'Mara: "I actually think [the odds on appeal for President Trump] are pretty good because there are a number of significant issues on the way this trial was handled." pic.twitter.com/eMbVzQQhhO — Michael (@NewsTalkPD) May 31, 2024 This isn't over. Can you sense the coming headlines? 'Trump EXONERATED" This verdict is a disgrace and makes me ashamed of the NY legal system, where I started as a lawyer over 30 years ago. If they can do this to the leading presidential candidate, they can do it to any of us. It should be overturned on appeal and I’m voting TRUMP! Are you with me? pic.twitter.com/DYyuxBLi9j — Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) May 30, 2024 Even biden thinks he should be able to appeal. (If Trump posted a video with biden's name not capitalized, maybe we should keep that trend going)

Judge Merchan, who presided over Donald Trump’s so-called “hush money” trial, expressed worry in a letter on Friday regarding a social media comment uploaded to Meta (Facebook) by someone claiming to be a juror's cousin.

Judge Merchan notified the Trump lawyers that a Facebook comment claimed the poster’s cousin was a juror who said, “Trump is getting convicted. Thank you for all your hard work.” before the jury came in. It looks like a meaningless troll comment, but Judge Merchan didn’t comment on its validity. You can read Judge Merchan’s […] The post Judge Merchan Notifies All Parties of an Inappropriate FB Comment appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A major blue state has slipped into toss-up territory as President Biden’s poll numbers continue to flounder, according to a major poll rater. Virginia is now rated a toss-up by RealClearPolitics, which analyzes and averages the latest polling for the 2024 election. This just in: Virginia and its 13 electoral votes has moved to a Toss Up. https://t.co/ZuzasZJRHf pic.twitter.com/vze2juBNEg — Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) June 7, 2024 Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 0.1% based on 17 polls in Decision Desk HQ/@thehill's presidential polling average in Virginia. pic.twitter.com/iHyJ9aqAjv — Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) June 7, 2024   Virginia has 13 electoral votes, which Democrats have snagged in both of the last two presidential elections. A presidential candidate needs 270 electoral votes to secure victory. In 2020, Biden won Virginia by 10 points or nearly half a million votes. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the state by less, five points or about 200,000 votes. Clinton’s popularity in Virginia may have been boosted by picking Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP However, Biden has slowly lost ground in Virginia this election cycle, according to polls from the last few months. In a poll from late May, Biden and former President Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, were shown tied 42-42. In another estimate, Biden leads Donald Trump by just 0.1%, according to an average of 17 polls. Other states marked as toss-ups by the poll rater are Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada,  Minnesota, North Carolina, and Georgia. Overall, Trump is up over Biden by less than a point, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls. As of late last month, the former president was leading in five of six swing states, although Biden has been shown with a small lead in several of those states since then, according to some polls. In 2020, Trump lost a slew of these battleground states: Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin. With the election just five months away, both Trump and Biden have ramped up their campaign strategies. Democrats have leaned into the abortion issue and Trump’s recent felony conviction, while Republicans have doubled down on their attacks on the economy under Biden, immigration, and the court cases against Trump. Trump is battling several court cases, one of which kept him stuck in a Manhattan courtroom all day for weeks until late last month, when he was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels. Trump scheduled rallies and other campaign events in the evenings, on weekends, and on Wednesdays when the court was not usually in session. Later this month, voters will see the president and former president go head-to-head in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle, which is scheduled for Thursday, June 27. The first debate could jolt polling in favor of one candidate, at least briefly, as presidential debates have done in the past.

On Thursday, Joe Biden went to Normandy on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare, and attempted to channel Ronald Reagan.  Ronald Reagan was there for the 40th anniversary of D-Day and gave an incredibly famous and wonderful speech about the boys of Pointe du Hoc and the rest of that fateful day.  Joe Biden showed up and proceeded to possibly poop, which is under dispute. The White House suggested that the president did not, in fact, poop. But the fact that it’s an open question is not ideal for the president of the United States, who has now been the subject of a giant Wall Street Journal piece pointing out the obvious to all of us, which is that the president is no longer functional.  The New York Times reported: The aging American president facing a re-election campaign came to the Normandy coast of France to pay tribute to the daring Army Rangers who scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, offer a paean to democracy for which they sacrificed and perhaps even wrap himself a little bit in their reflected glory. That was 1984, and the president was Ronald Reagan, who delivered an ode to heroism and patriotism that would become one of the most iconic moments of his presidency. Forty years later, another aging president facing re-election plans to return to the same spot Friday to honor the same heroes and effectively align himself with Mr. Reagan’s legacy of leadership against tyranny. Good luck to Joe Biden if he hoped to mirror the performance of Ronald Reagan in 1984 in Normandy. In 1984, Reagan was 73-years-old, younger than both of the major party candidates this year. Biden is currently 81 and no longer in control of his faculties.  The viral clips that were going around social media yesterday were not the clips of Biden appearing stalwart in defense of democracy. They were clips of the president doddering around, guided by his handlers, led by the hand by Dr. Jill (who’s going to need a medical degree before all of this is over, given the way that Biden is medically slipping). Biden arrived at Omaha Beach and staggered around in his moon shoes. They have him in these moon shoes because they are afraid he is going to trip or keel over. He got out of the car, didn’t know where to go, and stood there looking bewildered, his mouth slack-jawed. Then, he went on stage with the other world leaders, all of whom are probably half his age. He had this particularly odd moment in which he was not sure whether to sit down on a chair or not to sit down on a chair — though nobody else seemed confused. Everyone else was standing. You might feel for Dr. Jill, except for the fact that she’s the one who’s keeping him in power and has ambitions of her own. Biden had to be led away, tottered away, by Dr. Jill before everyone else. All the rest of the world leaders greeted all of the members of the Greatest Generation. But Biden was gone. During the ceremony, he appeared to be lost; at times, he appeared to have his eyes closed, which has become a common occurrence for him. The Wall Street Journal reported that during meetings, it’s not clear whether he’s fallen asleep or not. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show Why does any of this matter? It matters because this is a president who clearly is not in command. So the question becomes, who is in command? The answer is: whoever’s in command that day. There is no one consistent answer. It is not as though there’s a shadow president like Barack Obama sitting in the background manipulating all the strings. At least then you would get a bad but coherent policy from Biden. But we are getting an extraordinary level of volatility and eccentricity in Biden’s policymaking, which makes it feel as though he’s ping-ponging off the walls, because he is. That is not unusual in a case when you have somebody who’s approaching senility; on some days, they are better than on others. Even his greatest allies, people who perform acts of Stormy-Daniels-level sycophancy upon Biden, are starting to make jokes about the fact he does not appear to be in control of himself. Jimmy Kimmel, lackey par excellence to the Biden administration, mocked Biden descending stairs. That’s always a great look, when even the people who love you the most are making fun of the fact you might fall down the stairs at any moment. Democrats are fighting off the perception that this president is not only incompetent at his job, but that he’s just not with it by ratcheting up the rhetoric against Donald Trump. That’s because if they can make the election a referendum on Trump, then Trump has some trouble. If the election is a referendum on Joe Biden, the current president of the United States, then Biden has some trouble, which is why the chief goal of the Trump campaign should be to stay out of the line of fire. Quiet Trump is the best Trump. If Trump were to actually pursue Biden’s strategy from 2020 by going into a basement and staying there until November, Trump would be president of the United States again.  It is the job of Democrats to pull the panic alarm and push the panic button with regard to Trump, so they are really ratcheting it up. On Thursday, Hillary Clinton issued what is one of the most egregious tweets I’ve ever seen in my life. She wrote, “Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy. This November, all we have to do is vote.” According to Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump is Hitler. And when you vote against Donald Trump, that is the same as you storming the beaches of Normandy. It’s the same as when your great-grandfather stormed the beaches of Normandy while his friends got killed by mortars. There are a couple of reasons this is insulting: The idea that voting is in any way equivalent to military service is absurd. The idea that Trump is orange Hitler is absurd; we know he isn’t. He was president of the United States already. Mitch Landrieu, who’s a senior advisor in infrastructure coordination for the Biden administration, echoed, “I feel very, very confident that this is going to be a very hard fought race … but when the chips are down, the American people are going to show up just like those kids did, 80 years ago.” “Just like the kids did 80 years ago?” As though storming off of an amphibious landing craft onto a beach marked by machine gunfire is the same as voting for the old man who may have actually pooped on himself at Normandy? You have the Biden administration saying Trump is the incipient tyrant and voting against him is like storming the beaches of Normandy.  That’s despicable.

Everyone in the room was groaning, saying, ‘What is going on?'

'it was a mistake not to stay in France longer – and I apologise'

Claudia Sheinbaum, the hand-picked successor of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will be the next president of Mexico. Unfortunately, that means U.S.-Mexico relations remain on a dangerous course that has empowered drug cartels and brought skyrocketing overdoses and uncontrolled migration to the United States. Sheinbaum owes her victory almost entirely to Lopez Obrador’s highly popular government, leaving little chance that she will distance herself from the man universally known as AMLO. Under the incumbent’s government, U.S.-Mexico relations have seen a dangerous deterioration. New threats have emerged on the border—ranging from fentanyl, weaponized mass migration, and terrorist networks—and important opportunities for collaboration, such as nearshoring supply chains from China, have been largely squandered. Worse still, deepening narco-corruption adds a powerful force working against a necessary change of course in Mexico. All this means that if the vital relationship between the U.S. and Mexico is to stabilize, the Biden administration must right the ship. To date, Washington has largely been a passive observer of the relationship’s continued collapse. This is best evidenced by the utter breakdown of counter-narcotics cooperation with Mexico. Opioid overdoses, facilitated by the free flow of Chinese precursor chemicals to Mexico’s cartels, continue to kill over 100,000 Americans each year. Nevertheless, the Biden administration has stood by as AMLO has repeatedly denied Mexico’s role in the fentanyl crisis. Even when Mexico’s government terminated the longstanding Merida Initiative, upending counter-drug cooperation with U.S. law enforcement, President Joe Biden remained silent. American permissiveness goes back years, through multiple presidential administrations. In 2020, under President Donald Trump, U.S. law enforcement agents arrested former Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos after uncovering his collaboration with the drug cartels. Yet after substantial diplomatic pressure from Mexico, the U.S. released Cienfuegos, whom AMLO subsequently decorated with a medal honoring his service. In 2011, the Obama administration dropped a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation revealing credible narco-corruption directly implicating Lopez Obrador, then a presidential candidate. Originally published by the New York Post The post Mexico’s Next President Won’t Alter Dangerously Corrupt Course in US Relations appeared first on The Daily Signal.