Late today. the jury in the Trump hush-money case in Manhattan brought in a verdict of guilty on all 34 counts of document falsification. Presumably the case now goes to appeal.
The normal appellate route would be to a New York State appeals court, followed by the state's Supreme Court, and then to the US Supreme Court. Some have suggested the unprecedented nature of the case mandates an immediate appeal to SCOTUS.
In politics what goes around comes around. Expect Republicans to bring cases against leading Democrats in red states where the judges and juries are sympathetic to Republican viewpoints.
This new lawfare precedent is unlikely to end well for our politics or our nation. We have just taken the first step toward having autocratic presidents-for-life as becoming an ex-president will be too dangerous to contemplate.
Vlad Putin finds himself in this fix in Russia. He can't possibly leave office ... and live.
