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Let's bring in Keri Kupec-Urban, Fox News legal editor and former counselor to Attorney
General Bill Barr.
All right.
Great to have you.
I'd love to pick your brain on this.
I've got to say, though, both of us as attorneys, one of the first things I thought about when
this fine initially came down was the Eighth Amendment, this whole excessive fines, cruel
and unusual punishments.
I mean, is this something that ends up at the Supreme Court?
I think it could, but, you know, we're a long ways from there.
And of course, as you and I both know, the Supreme Court, even if it were to be presented
to them, they don't have to take it up.
I don't think that most people realize that the Supreme Court only accepts less than one
percent of the petitions presented to them per year, because it does feel, like, potentially
like an Eighth Amendment claim, given that the state of New York never in its history
has ever applied the law against someone in this way.
And then on top of it, a half a billion dollar bond that he has to post in order to appeal.
So it's a tough situation.
It feels like a big due process issue, too, because if there's a framework in place that
you can't even appeal the decision against you because there's too high a bar even getting
to the appeal.
I feel like that's another good ground for them as well.
It is.
And, you know, the court in New York should be concerned about the appearance of fairness.
And so they could very well, and it would be consistent with the way that courts act.
They could reduce the bond.
They could even wave it all together.
It's not like Donald Trump's going anywhere.
They won't be able to find him if he, you know, were to lose.
He's running for president, and I don't even think that he could handle being hidden if
he wanted to be, knowing his personality.
So it would be fair, and again, it would be consistent with the way they normally operate.
But as we've seen, the New York court system has not been acting, I think, in the way they
normally treat other people similarly situated, but it's different when it comes to Donald
Trump.
Yeah, we know the Monday deadline is coming.
Right.
So we'll see what legal wrangling happens between now and then.
