The only recourse for this sham trial in Lower Manhattan is for Republican state attorneys general to sue the state of New York, which would create a path to the Supreme Court using original jurisdiction allowing the court to hear and decide a case for the first time before any appellate review occurs.

These are extraordinarily dangerous times for our republic. New York prosecutors have sought and obtained civil and criminal judgments under unique N.Y. laws against Donald Trump. I believe their purpose was to interfere in the upcoming federal election by persuading voters in swing states not to cast ballots for electors who choose Trump to be president.

By utilizing its local laws, invoked by prosecutors who are political and implemented by a judge who is affiliated with one national party, it would be a travesty to tilt the voting for electors in other states, thus allowing the state of New York to deliberately interfere with voting across the country.

What New York has achieved, unless the Supreme Court takes prompt remedial action, is to make this and future federal presidential elections chaotic and unpredictable. It subjects them to aggressive attacks on one candidate by a single partisan state choosing to weaponize its local laws and courts.

To choose to destroy public trust in the judicial system by going after a political opponent would be living out Sun Tzu’s “evil enemy” warning: “An evil enemy will burn his nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.”

Ed Liberatore

Turtle Creek

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