Fordham Law Professor Jerry Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, is quoted in a Salon article describing the unlikely chance that the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes in the criminal conviction of former President Donald Trump.
Election and campaign finance lawyer Jerry Goldfeder said the law is quite clear, and that so were Merchan’s jury instructions.
“I don’t see any of that being successful,” said Goldfeder, who is director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, and a longtime legal counsel for mayors, governors and presidential candidate. “The prosecution made out a very solid case.”
“The statute says you cannot influence an election by unlawful means,” Goldfeder said. “Unlawful means could be violations of state law or violations of federal law.”
Goldfeder said he doesn’t see any plausible constitutional issues that Trump could raise.