Will the justices of the United States Supreme Court spare Donald Trump the ignominy of being the first president to occupy the White House after being officially assigned the status of a criminal? This is what the president-elect wants. After being rejected Tuesday by the New York Court of Appeal, he asked the highest court to block the pronouncement of his sentence scheduled for Friday in the Stormy Daniels case.
“This Court should immediately stay the proceedings in the New York District Court in order to avoid grave injustice and harm to the institution of the presidency and the functioning of the federal government,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in their filing. request. They say the case should simply be overturned because of the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling on presidential immunity.
The judge at Trump’s trial, Juan Merchan, ruled that the president-elect will not have immunity until he is sworn in as president. What’s more, he argued, Trump was tried for facts that did not concern his official actions during his first term. He was convicted of falsifying business records to hide the $140,000 payment to the porn actress in exchange for her silence before the 2016 presidential election.
Judge Merchan has already ruled out the possibility of giving Trump a prison sentence. But any sentence, even the least severe, will confirm the criminal status of the president-elect, something he is trying to avoid at all costs before his inauguration.
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