President Trump, Felony Conviction, Firearms Possession

Former and Future President Trump is now a convicted felon in the State of New York. The abuse of the judicial system by the prosecutor and  judge are some of the worst seen by astute, leftist legal commentators, such as Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz.  Dershowitz goes so far as calling him “a convicted innocent man”. He says there were 34 non-crimes President Trump was convicted of.  At left of center Politifact, this question was raised: From politifact:

President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 10 felony sentencing raised questions on social media about his rights: Can he vote, travel internationally and own a gun? 

Yes, likely, and no.

It is unlikely the guilty verdict in the outrageous anti-Trump lawfare case in New York will survive for long.  When President Trump is sworn in to office, Presidential immunity will apply for his second term in his presidency. The verdict will almost certainly be reversed long before that term ends. As Jonathan Turley notes:

The case has long been denounced by objective legal observers, including intense Trump critics, as a legal absurdity. Even CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig denounced the case as legally flawed and unprecedented while Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., simply called it total “b—s–t.”

It is a case based on a non-crime. Bragg took a long-dead misdemeanor and zapped it back into life with a novel and unfounded theory. By using federal violations that were never charged, let alone tried, Bragg turned a misdemeanor into dozens of felonies and essentially tried Trump for federal offenses.

In spite of a looming reversal, the conviction has positive implications for Second Amendment supporters and supporters of limited government in general.

There are cases moving forward in the legal system challenging federal law which bans all “felons” from possessing or owning firearms and ammunition. This is a relatively new federal crime, which came into being in 1968. Some courts have already declared the federal ban to be unconstitutional for non-violent offenses. The case most likely to be heard by the Supreme Court is Range v Lombardo, from the Third Circuit.

At the Supreme Court level, the justices are certain to know about the laughworthy felony convictions of President Donald Trump. The Supreme Court has a good chance of hearing the case if the New York Courts fail to do their duty.  The Trump case is a near-perfect example of judicial overreach and lawfare. The idea of a Presidential candidate being stripped of a fundamental, in-numerated, Constitutional right, without any hint of violence, is likely to make an impression about the absurdity of many felony laws in the current United States of America.

President Trump will be affected. It is one thing to generally be in favor of restoring rights protected by the Second Amendment. It is more personal and significant to have infringements on Second Amendment rights directly used against you in a preposterous way.

President Trump has done more for the restoration of Second Amendment rights than any President before him. He has not demonstrated an intimate understanding of the war to restore those rights or the intricacies of the battles involved. In the future, the intimacy of the lawfare used against him may make the restoration of Second Amendment rights a personal battle for President Trump.

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