Author’s note: This is the first of two columns contending, based on recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court, that New York State judge Juan Merchan should set aside the guilty verdicts against former president Donald Trump, which were returned by the jury in the criminal trial that ended in early June. The trial resulted from charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Before the familiar flurry of rulings that ended the Supreme Court’s term last week, there was already a geyser of grounds for throwing out the travesty of a trial that resulted in former president Donald Trump’s felony convictions — 34 of them because the case was pled abusively, as well as vindictively, by Manhattan’s elected progressive Democratic district attorney Alvin Bragg.
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