President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Courtroom to name off Friday’s sentencing in his hush cash case in New York.
Trump’s attorneys turned to the nation’s highest court docket Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Juan M. Merchan, the decide who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction final Might on 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise data.
Trump’s attorneys requested for a right away keep of Friday’s sentencing “to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government.”
The Supreme Courtroom requested for a response from New York prosecutors by Thursday.
Merchan has indicated he is not going to impose jail time, fines, or probation.
Trump’s attorneys have pointed to the Supreme Courtroom’s ruling giving him broad immunity from legal prosecution as they tried to have his New York conviction tossed out.
Whereas that opinion got here in a special case, Trump’s attorneys say it means a number of the proof used towards him in his hush cash trial ought to have been shielded by presidential immunity.
Merchan has disagreed.
