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President-elect Trump is expected to be sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to charges of falsifying business records stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s years-long investigation.
The president-elect is expected to attend his sentencing virtually, after fighting to block the process all the way to the United States. Supreme Court this week
Judge Juan Merchan set Trump’s sentencing for January 10, just ten days before he is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
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Merchan, however, said he will not sentence the president-elect to prison.
From left to right: Judge Juan Merchan, former President Donald Trump and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. (Getty Images, AP Images)
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.
Trump filed an appeal to block the ruling from moving forward with the New York State Court of Appeals. This court denied his request.
Trump also filed an emergency motion with the United States Supreme Court, arguing that he “immediately requests a stay of the criminal proceedings pending in the Supreme Court of New York County, New York, pending the final resolution of the “President Trump’s interlocutory appeal raising issues of presidential immunity, including in this Court if necessary.”
“The Court should also enter, if necessary, a temporary administrative stay while it considers this request for a stay,” Trump asked.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg arrives at the trial of Daniel Penny after a lunch break at the Manhattan Supreme Criminal Court building in New York City on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
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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.
The Supreme Court, earlier this year, ruled that presidents are immune from prosecution related to official presidential acts.
But New York prosecutors argued that the high court “does not have jurisdiction” over the case.
Trump has previously outlined a strategic component of his one-bill reconciliation approach. (Getty Images)
They also argued that the evidence they presented at last year’s trial related to “unofficial conduct that is not subject to any immunity.”
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Trump was indicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. He pleaded not guilty to those charges. After an unprecedented six-week trial for a former president and presidential candidate, a New York jury found the now-president-elect guilty of all charges.
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.
