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The United States Supreme Court has denied President-elect Trump’s request to block his Friday ruling in New York against Trump.
Trump filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to try to prevent the Jan. 10 ruling, expected by Judge Juan Merchan, from happening.
“The suspension request presented to Judge Sotomayor and referred to the Court by her has been denied for, among other thingsthe following reasons. First, the alleged evidentiary violations in President-elect Trump’s trial in state courts may be addressed in the ordinary course of appeal,” the order states.
“Second, the burden the ruling will place on the president-elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose an unconditional recusal after a brief virtual hearing.” the court ruled.
The order also noted that “Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh would accept the request.”
Trump needed five votes to grant his request. The order memo suggests that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett voted with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Katanji Brown Jackson.
Trump’s sentencing is now expected to move forward, with the president-elect expected to appear virtually for the proceedings, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Friday.
Merchan set Trump’s New York sentencing against Trump for Jan. 10 after a jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree, as a result of the now-president-elect. Manhattan District Attorney The research of Alvin Bragg. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges and has appealed the sentence, but it was thrown out by Merchan last week.
The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, DC (AP photo)
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Trump’s lawyers, in their petition to the high court, said it should “immediately order a stay of the criminal proceedings pending in the Supreme Court of New York County, New York, pending final resolution of President Trump’s interlocutory appeal raising issues of presidential immunity included in this Court.”
“The Court should also enter, if necessary, a temporary administrative stay while it considers this request for a stay,” the filing states.
Former President Trump and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. (Emily Elconin/Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Trump’s lawyers also argued that New York prosecutors wrongly admitted numerous pieces of evidence related to official presidential acts during the trial, ignoring the high court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
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The Supreme Court, earlier this year, ruled that presidents are immune from prosecution related to official presidential acts.
Trump’s legal team argues Merchan should not be allowed to go forward and said his appeal of the ruling “will ultimately result in the dismissal of the politically motivated prosecution of the district attorney who was flawed from the beginning, centered on wrongful and false actions.” The claims of a disgraced and disbarred former serial lying attorney violated President Trump’s due process rights and had no merit.”
Judge Juan Merchan imposed a gag order on former President Trump before the trial began. He was fined $10,000 for violating that order. (Getty Images)
Merchan set the sentencing date last week, but said he will not sentence the president-elect to prison.
Merchan wrote in his decision that he is not likely to “impose a term of imprisonment” but rather a sentence of “unconditional dismissal”, meaning there would be no punishment imposed.
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Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on January 20.
Trump has maintained his innocence in the case and has repeatedly criticized it as an example of a “law” pushed by Democrats in an effort to hurt their election efforts before November.
