New York’s highest court refused to halt President Trump’s sentencing in the hush money case scheduled for Friday, making his emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court his last chance to pause the hearing.
According to CBS News, a deputy clerk for Judge Jenny Rivera wrote a letter to Todd Blanche, Trump's attorney, saying that the judge had declined to intervene.
A judge in New York’s high court DECLINED to sign Donald Trump’s order to delay tomorrow’s sentencing.
All eyes are now on the U.S. Supreme Court. https://t.co/KRXLrDTmTR pic.twitter.com/aLle9hfU7u
— Erik Uebelacker (@Uebey) January 9, 2025
CBS News reports:
Trump was convicted last year on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the so-called "hush money" case.
The incoming president has also sought an emergency reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming on Wednesday in a filing that evidence shown at trial violated his constitutional rights to presidential immunity. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who oversees requests for emergency relief arising from the 2nd Circuit, ordered Manhattan prosecutors to respond by Thursday morning.
ADVERTISEMENTNew York prosecutors have told multiple judges this week that they don't believe sentencing should be delayed.
"Notwithstanding defendant's past and upcoming service as President, his history, character, and condition — and especially his open disregard for the justice system — do not support dismissal," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's lawyers wrote in a New York filing Thursday.
Prosecutors also urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday against intervention in the case.
"The judge overseeing Trump’s sentencing, Justice Juan Merchan, has indicated he will not sentence the president-elect to jail time and has said Trump can attend virtually," POLITICO wrote.
NY's highest appeals court won't block Trump's sentencing in hush money case, giving him one last resort.https://t.co/YtIKD0zWUY
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) January 9, 2025
From POLITICO:
Trump has asked the Supreme Court to halt the proceeding, citing what he says are national security risks in distracting him from his duties related to the presidential transition just days before his inauguration.
The chief clerk of the New York Court of Appeals notified an attorney for Trump in a brief letter on Thursday morning that his request to halt the sentencing for Trump’s criminal conviction was reviewed by Judge Jenny Rivera, who declined to block it. No explanation for the decision was offered. Last May, a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents.
The announcement from the New York court came minutes before Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office told the Supreme Court in response to Trump’s effort that “there is no basis” for the court to intervene, saying it lacks jurisdiction.
And, Bragg’s prosecutors wrote, the court should reject Trump’s claims that he is protected by presidential immunity even as president-elect.
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