Members and Leadership Sign Amicus Brief in Trump v. New York

Members and leadership of the Society signed this amicus brief in the matter of Trump v. New York, on Donald Trump’s emergency application for a stay in sentencing.

The brief argues that “providing applicant as president-elect a last-minute reprieve would undermine the jury’s verdict and serve as a manifest injustice because it would violate one of our nation’s most fundamental precepts—that no person is above the law.”

Signatories on the brief include:

Donald B. Ayer, Deputy Attorney General in the George H.W. Bush Administration from 1989 to 1990

Barbara Comstock, Representative of the 10th District of Virginia from 2015 to 2019 (R)

Mickey Edwards, Representative of the 5th District of Oklahoma from 1977 to 1993 (R)

Stuart M. Gerson, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division in the George H.W. Bush Administration from 1989 to 1993 and Acting United States Attorney General in the Clinton Administration in 1993

Trevor Potter, Chairman of the Federal Election Commission and Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission from 1991 to 1995

Alan Charles Raul, Associate Counsel to the President from 1986 to 1988

Jonathan C. Rose, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy from 1981 to 1984 and Special Assistant to the President from 1971 to 1972

Stanley A. Twardy, Jr., United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut in the Reagan and George H.W Bush Administrations from 1985 to 1991

Read the full brief here. Media wishing to be connected for comment should contact Communications Director Tony Franquiz at [email protected].

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