Donald Trump has requested the U.S. Supreme Court to cease his scheduled sentencing on Friday for his felony conviction associated to hush cash funds made to former porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump’s authorized group is also asking the courtroom to weigh in on whether or not presidential immunity applies to a president-elect. In addition they need to justices to find out whether or not a few of the proof introduced on the hush cash trial ought to have been barred from the case, arguing that they had been official acts.
Final 12 months, in one other case introduced by Trump, the Supreme Court docket dominated that presidents are immune from felony prosecution for his or her official acts whereas in workplace.
“This Court docket ought to enter a right away keep of additional proceedings within the New York trial courtroom to forestall grave injustice and hurt to the establishment of the Presidency and the operations of the federal authorities,” Trump’s authorized group wrote.
Read Trump’s brief to Supreme Court in hush money case.
Final week, New York Choose Juan Merchan scheduled Trump’s sentencing, rejecting his authorized group’s arguments that he was immune from prosecution. Merchan indicated that Trump wouldn’t face incarceration and that Trump may seem on the sentencing listening to nearly.
On Tuesday, a New York appellate courtroom additionally refused to cease the sentencing.
Trump is the primary president to be criminally convicted of a felony.
