For months now, the country has been riveted by the four criminal cases against Donald Trump: the New York state case involving hush-money payments to an adult film star, the federal case involving classified documents, the Georgia election-interference case and the federal election-interference case.
Why civil litigation against Trump has been more successful and might be a less fraught way to pursue accountability for the country. But some have been postponed or had important deadlines delayed. The only case with a realistic shot of producing a verdict before the election, the New York case, involves relatively minor charges of falsifying business records that areIt’s only the civil courts that have rendered judgments on Mr. Trump. In the first two months of 2024, Mr.
To understand why the civil system has been so successful against Mr. Trump, it’s important to understand some differences between civil and criminal justice. Civil actions have a lower standard of proof than criminal ones. In the civil fraud case, Judge Arthur Engoron applied a “” standard, which required the attorney general to prove that it was more likely than not that Mr. Trump committed fraud. As a result, it is much easier for those suing Mr.
It may also be difficult for Mr. Trump to avoid the most serious penalties in a civil case. To appeal both recent civil judgments, Mr. Trump must come up with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash or secure a bond from an outside company. Although he managed to post a $91.6 million bond in the Carroll case, he initially encountered what his lawyers described as “” in securing the half-billion-dollar bond he was originally ordered to post in the civil fraud case.
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