President Trump’s request for postponement of sentencing denied
President-elect Donald Trump set aside this week’s ruling in his hush money case while he appeals a ruling that upholds the verdict and puts him on track to become the first president to hold office after being convicted of a crime. Attempts to postpone the deadline were thwarted. FOX 5 NY’s Robert Moses has more details.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to reverse Friday’s ruling in a hush-money case in New York.
Trump after a New York court refused to delay the sentencing of Juan M. Marchan, the judge who presided over Trump’s trial last May and convicted him of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. His lawyers filed the suit Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump’s lawyers asked for Friday’s ruling to be immediately halted “to prevent serious fraud and damage to the institution of the presidency and the operation of the federal government.”
The Supreme Court asked New York prosecutors to respond by Thursday.
Marchand has indicated that he will not impose prison terms, fines or suspended sentences.
Trump’s lawyers pointed to a Supreme Court ruling that threw out his New York conviction, giving him broad immunity from criminal prosecution.
Although the opinion was issued in a separate lawsuit, Trump’s lawyers said it meant that some of the evidence used against him in the hush money trial should have been protected by presidential immunity. It states that. Mr Marchand disagreed.
