The partisan hack NY judge conceded to reality -- that his best efforts failed and that he had no ability to jail Trump or otherwise impact his liberty in any way. The ONLY thing the combined efforts of the Lawfare brigades accomplished was 1) to expose them all as unscrupulous partisans lacking integrity and 2) attach the label of "felon" to Trump which will be temporary and failed to produce the outcome they desired.I think SCOTUS was wrong to not intervene because it was POTUS who said certain kinds of evidence cannot be used in a criminal trial of a POTUS or ex-POTUS, and that kind of evidence was used against Trump. They took up that challenge pretrial in the federal case in DC and directed the lower court to not allow that kind of evidence to be used. By not intervening -- and saying the errors could be corrected in the appeals process -- they undercut their own ruling that certain kinds of evidence cannot be used. They would have supported their own ruling by stopping the process prior to sentencing and telling the NY appellate court it needed to resolve the question of improper use of evidence against an ex-POTUS before the prosecution was made "final" by the trial court. BUT, the election was won by Trump regardless of the errors in the trial court, Trump is 9 days from being POTUS, the "stigma" of being called a felon is going to persist no matter what the outcome of the appeals process is in NY, and Trump will certain win that appeals process once it plays out and the "legal" implications of being a felon will all fall away. He suffers nothing more than a temporary "indignity" that wasn't going to change even if SCOTUS had stepped in.For Trump, going forward gave him another chance with the world watching to blast the process and all involved. Merchan's efforts to castigate him were completely ineffectual because Merchan long ago revealed himself to be a partisan hack judge without any judicial integrity at all -- a machine politician in New York wearing a black robe. The only people applauding him were the windup monkeys in the leftwing media banging cymbals together one last time.