Steve Calabresi, founder and co-chairman of the influential Federalist Society, has compared the judgment against former President Donald Trump in a New York civil fraud trial to the killing of Alexander Hamilton. He also describes it as a “Stalinist nightmare.”
Writing for Reason, Calabresi states: “The civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump is a travesty, and an unjust political act rivaled only in American politics by the killing of former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton by Vice President Aaron Burr.”
“[NY AG Letitia] James and Judge Engeron have essentially turned a vaguely worded New York State law into a modern day Bill of Attainder targeted at Donald Trump both for political gain and because they despise his political views,” Calabresi explains. He claims that the ruling is a violation of several of Trump’s constitutional rights. These include his rights under the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment, Eighth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, and Article IV, Section 2.
