Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's historic 34 felony charges against former President Trump hinge on dubious legal theories that critics say make it an extraordinarily weak case.
Former Sen. John Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat, was charged with six counts of violating campaign finance laws for accepting $1 million from donors to obscure his pregnant mistress during his 2008 campaign. A jury acquitted him on one count of receiving illegal campaign contributions and deadlined on the others. The Justice Department declined to pursue the charges.
It was revealed that federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill doled out $17 million of taxpayer funds between 1997 and 2017 to settle allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination, and other cases. The lawmakers who settled the cases were ever named, much less charged. “If payments to settle sexual misconduct allegations are campaign finance expenditures then every single member of Congress who benefited from this taxpayer-funded system could be charged with a crime,” said Mr. Bopp, the campaign finance law expert.could plausibly say he made the payments to avoid personal embarrassment to himself or his family.
That argument might be posited by Mr. Trump’s legal team. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that because campaign finance laws intersect with the First Amendment, personal expenses not created by campaigning that would benefit the campaign are considered violations. For example, a politician who buys an expensive suit for a debate would not be viewed as violating federal campaign law.] protecting his marriage rather than winning an election,” Mr. Davis said.
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