Posted on 01/08/2025 8:55:13 AM PST by thegagline
President-elect Donald Trump urged the US Supreme Court Wednesday to take the extraordinary step of halting his sentencing later this week in his Manhattan “hush money” case.
Trump’s lawyers urged the nation’s highest court to step in after a New York appeals court refused to postpone the Friday hearing, at which he is set to face a no-punishment sentence.
The attorneys argued that going ahead with the sentencing would unconstitutionally interfere with Trump preparing for his second term. This Court should enter an immediate stay of further proceedings in the New York trial court to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government,” attorneys Todd Blanche, Emil Bove and D. John Sauer wrote.
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Trump’s lawyers also simultaneously asked New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals in Albany, to stay the sentencing, according to the US Supreme Court filing. The judge overseeing the hush money case, Juan Merchan, last week set sentencing for Jan. 10 — just 10 days before Trump’s second inauguration as president.
The judge said that he planned to give Trump the most lenient possible sentence — no jail time, fine or probation. He also will let Trump appear virtually for the 9:30 a.m. hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Trump, 78, can’t appeal to overturn the conviction until the sentencing is complete. A Manhattan jury in May found the real estate mogul-turned-politician guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for lying on company files to conceal a 2016 payoff by his former fixer, Michael Cohen, to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The payoff was meant to stop Daniels from telling her story about having sex with a married Trump in a Lake Tahoe hotel suite years earlier, according to trial testimony. ***
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https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A666/336760/20250107212856360_2025-01-07%20-%20Trump%20v.%20New%20York%20-%20Supreme%20Court%20Stay%20Application.pdf
John Roberts will NOT allow this!! He DESPISES TRUMP!
What a farce that we actually have to entertain this Ghana banana republic-level nonsense. I hope they all get their covid boosters and the clots/immune disorders that go with them.
Yep, Roberts will use the usual leap frogging excuse to dodge this.
If he does, it will contradict his immunity ruling.
I should say, if Robert’s doesn’t allow the stay.
What was in the bag John?
Why doesn’t he argue there was no standing and its not a legitimate charge? Bragg didn’t have standing to prosecute a federal charge.
How do you know he isn’t?
I’m sure Trump’s attorneys are including that in their argument.
Roberts: “It’s a tax”
He hasn’t been getting much help from the Supremes.
The “no standing” argument is absolutely relevant, but only in the normal appeal process — which wouldn’t begin until after sentencing. That is not sufficient grounds to get an immediate stay in the sentencing. To stop the sentencing, the defendant in the case has to demonstrate that there’s an urgent, compelling reason to circumvent the normal process.
Why must you make things up.
This whole thing is a wash. The intent of going after Trump for all these things was to keep him out of the white house. It didn’t work. And after this trip, he won’t be going again unless his wife wins. So it will make no difference as if they want to slap the republican party they have their share of politicians in jail along with fines. So liberals should make the deal and try to save face. If the jail him, Vance will have him out in about 10 minutes.
A site to display the liberals illegal acts is this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes
wy69
Unlikely that the Supremes will take this.
He will just have to take the scenic route through the appeals process.
You’re a GAS!!! LOL!! You REALLY think Roberts doesn’t HATE TRUMP? I thought you were smarter than that.
Why would you even think Roberts hates Trump??
So John Roberts as Chief Justice can block ANYTHING all by himself? That’s how it works? I thought it was 9 of them in the process of what happens in a case but you say Roberts acting alone means the rest don’t matter?
American patriots can’t win in “American Feral Government “Courts”.
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