The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow President Trump’s sentencing to go forward Friday was likely a good thing and a bad sign all at once.

It was probably a good thing for Trump in the long run, as it allows him to now appeal the misbegotten case in full. Moreover, the fact that two supposedly conservative justices – John Roberts and Amy Coney Barret – went along with their three leftist colleagues to allow the unambiguous sham-show proves they’re not Trump’s stooges, as the far-left wants you to believe.

But at the same time, it’s a horrible sign that they did so.

It means Roberts and Barrett aren’t really conservative at all – no surprise to those of us who are.

And it means they’ll continue to try to go along to get along with liberals who are practicing Sherman march-to-the-sea total war.

Indeed, it’s impossible to argue the New York “hush money” case against Trump isn’t the most political show-trial in American history:

• Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg actually campaigned on getting Trump.
• Judge Juan Merchan and his family are openly anti-Trump, as was almost every one of his rulings in the case.
• The case involved a legitimate business ledger entry for which the prescribed misdemeanor charge had lapsed – so they used a frightening contortion of the law to fabricate a felony; 34 of them, no less.
• The underlying crime was pure ether, the jury instructed it didn’t have to agree unanimously, putting into question centuries of British and American jurisprudence.
• The “sentencing” included no penalty – only the opportunity for hyperbolic, disingenuous public lashing of the once-and-future president by both prosecutor and judge, with the added bonus of making official the label of “felon.”

It was, in short, nothing more than a smear of a president by his political enemies

And history will record that your Supreme Court – Justices Roberts and Barrett in particular – went right along with the slander.

Yes, it would’ve been an extraordinary action for the high court to step in and prevent Friday’s charade. But the case, from discredited beginning to disreputable end, was an extraordinary weaponization of the justice system.

The Supreme Court was under no obligation to let such a historic bastardization of justice to play out. In fact, it was arguably duty-bound to put a stop to it at the first opportunity.

Instead, Justices Roberts and Barrett chose to pretend they didn’t know what an induced abortion Merchan had performed in his kangaroo court.

I’m calling BS on that.

Everyone in this country, and well beyond, could see this was a totalitarian-style show trial – “a trial organized by a government in order to have an effect on public opinion and reduce political opposition, and not in order to find the truth,” “a trial (as of political opponents) in which the verdict is rigged,” “(especially in a totalitarian state) the public trial of a political offender conducted chiefly for propagandistic purposes, as to suppress further dissent against the government by making an example of the accused.”

Judges and justices need not pretend to know nothing in order to be fair.

Roberts and Barrett knew full well what a Potemkin prosecution this was.

They had no legal or moral duty to give it the credibility they did.

Perhaps a good outcome in the end. But a very bad sign of things to come.