Donald Trump asks Supreme Courtroom to dam sentencing in his hush cash case in New York

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. File
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President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Courtroom to name off Friday’s (January 10, 2025) sentencing in his hush cash case in New York.

Mr. Trump’s attorneys turned to the nation’s highest court docket Wednesday (January 8, 2025) after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Juan M. Merchan, the choose who presided over Mr. Trump’s trial and conviction final Might on 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information.

Mr. Trump’s attorneys requested for a direct keep of Friday’s (January 10, 2025) sentencing “to stop grave injustice and hurt to the establishment of the Presidency and the operations of the federal authorities.”

The Supreme Courtroom requested for a response from New York prosecutors by Thursday (January 9, 2025).

Mr. Merchan has indicated he won’t impose jail time, fines or probation.

Mr. Trump’s attorneys have pointed to the Supreme Courtroom’s ruling giving him broad immunity from prison prosecution as they tried to have his New York conviction tossed out.

Whereas that opinion got here in a unique case, Mr. Trump’s attorneys say it means among the proof used towards him in his hush cash trial ought to have been shielded by presidential immunity. Mr. Merchan has disagreed.