Following the historic guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records — the first criminal conviction of a former U.S. president — Larry W. Zukerman and associate Maxwell Y. Peltz of Zukerman, Lear & Murray, Co., LPA contributed a guest column to the Cleveland Jewish News analyzing the real-world legal consequences of the convictions. The piece examines how a felony record restricts Trump’s right to possess firearms, bars him from serving in New York or Florida state office, and could limit international travel following sentencing. Importantly, the authors note that no constitutional provision bars a convicted felon from running for or serving as president, placing Trump in rare company historically alongside Eugene V. Debs, who ran for president from prison in 1920.
Read the full article here: https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/opinion/guest_columns/collateral-consequences-of-trump-s-34-felony-convictions/article_fc058050-298b-11ef-98a0-277e6eb8c329.html
