Eyes on US Supreme Court as NY’s highest court rejects Trump’s bid to postpone sentencing in hush money case
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New York’s highest court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to postpone his sentencing in the hush money case, leaving the US Supreme Court as his last chance to delay Friday’s scheduled hearing.
New York’s highest court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to postpone his sentencing in the hush money case, leaving the US Supreme Court as his last chance to delay Friday’s scheduled hearing. Trump appealed to both the Supreme Court and the New York Court of Appeals to try to block state Judge Juan Merchan from imposing a sentence in the hush money case, where Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records. In a two-sentence letter Thursday from the Court of Appeals, Trump’s attorneys were notified that Judge Jenny Rivera denied Trump’s request. The US Supreme Court can act at any time on Trump’s attempt to intervene and stop the sentencing, which was filed Wednesday after the New York Appellate Court, First Division, also denied Trump’s request to stay the sentencing. The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, told the justices in a filing Thursday that the sweeping protections the Supreme Court granted Trump in July for official actions while president shouldn’t apply in this case, which involved behavior in 2016. Trump’s “extraordinary immunity claim is unsupported by any decision from any court,” Bragg, a Democrat, told the Supreme Court. “It is axiomatic that there is only one president at a time. … And as this court has repeatedly recognized, presidential immunity is strictly limited to the time of the president’s term in office.”
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