Supreme Court won’t stop Trump’s hush money sentencing
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Trump is scheduled to face New York Justice Juan Merchan at 9 a.m. Friday — 10 days before his second inauguration to the presidency. The Supreme Court will not stop Donald Trump’s sentencing in his criminal hush money trial, leaving the president-elect without any remaining options to block his imminent return to Manhattan criminal court.
Trump is scheduled to face New York Justice Juan Merchan at 9 a.m. Friday — 10 days before his second inauguration to the presidency. On Wednesday, attorneys for the president-elect argued that the Supreme Court should intervene “to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government.”.
Trump argued that the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on presidential “immunity” should apply to the evidence used against him at trial — and shield him from any criminal proceedings as president-elect. Prosecutors with the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argued to the nation’s high court on Thursday that none of Trump’s claims “comes close to justifying” a pause in the proceedings, which have been repeatedly delayed through Trump’s presidential campaign.
Trump “makes the unprecedented claim that the temporary presidential immunity he will possess in the future fully immunizes him now, weeks before he even takes the oath of office, from all state-court criminal process,” prosecutors argued. “This extraordinary immunity claim is unsupported by any decision from any court. It is axiomatic that there is only one President at a time,” they wrote.
