'Serious Concerns' Raised About NY Judge's Trump Judgment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Trump attorneys Alina Habba and Christopher Kise characterized Monday's ruling as a key first step.
50% : President Trump hailed the ruling and said he would post a bond, securities, or cash to cover the $175 million sum in the civil case.
31% : Greg Germain, a law professor at Syracuse University in New York, said that President Trump may have a strong case to challenge Judge Arthur Engoron's ruling in February that he must pay $455 million in his civil fraud case.
23% : A former federal prosecutor now in private practice said that "judgments of this size are rare," referring to the penalties imposed against President Trump.
21% : While he believes the judgment was "seriously flawed," the professor said that President Trump will have a difficult time overturning the judge's "findings that his financial statement was grossly overstated.
21% : Monday's ruling came from a five-judge panel in the state's intermediate appeals court, called the Appellate Division, where President Trump is fighting to overturn Judge Engoron's Feb. 16 decision.

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