The Supreme Court rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in New York on Thursday.
Judge Juan Merchan previously scheduled the sentencing for Friday morning, determining it was better to impose a sentence before Trump’s term begins than after it ends.
Trump urged the justices to halt the sentencing in an emergency application on Wednesday, arguing his appeal would “ultimately result in the dismissal of the District Attorney’s politically motivated prosecution that was flawed from the very beginning, centered around the wrongful actions and false claims of a disgraced, disbarred serial-liar former attorney, violated President Trump’s due process rights, and had no merit.”
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wrote Thursday in a brief that there is “no basis” for stopping the sentencing, noting there is “only one President at a time.”
“Non employees of the government do not exercise any official function that would be impaired by the conclusion of a criminal case against a private citizen for private conduct,” the brief stated.
A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts for falsifying business records related to a nondisclosure agreement with Stormy Daniels in May, though Merchan’s instructions did not require jurors to agree on the underlying crime prosecutors alleged he falsified records to conceal.
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