Professor Jed Rubenfeld On The Trump Verdict (Episode 2 Added)

BTW, Dennis Prager notes that the only reason Trump is charged/convicted with 34-felonies is that he paid this in 34 billings to his lawyer. It is one “charge,” times 34. So, if Trump had stretched it out for a year, paying a small amount every day, he would have 365-felonies. Dumb.

The Trump hush-money criminal trial verdict is in—and it’s guilty. What does it mean? And what’s next? In the debut episode of my new show—Straight Down the Middle—I will walk you through it all. As a professor of law, one-time federal prosecutor, and constitutional law scholar, I have over three decades of experience with complex constitutional issues and I want to share everything I know with you and how it applies to the issues we see in the real world. In this episode, I walk through The Basics of the Trump verdict, The Constitutional Issues facing the conviction, and the Next Steps.

In Episode 2 of Straight Down the Middle, I take a look at whether the decision to charge and try Donald Trump for these crimes was “selective prosecution” on the part of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. I also tackle the issue of jury unanimity and whether the jury needed to find a unanimous verdict and what “unanimous” really meant here and how it was applied.