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 Decide Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction final Could on 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information.
The Supreme Courtroom requested for a response from prosecutors in New York by Thursday.
Trump’s attorneys requested for a right away keep of Friday’s sentencing “to stop grave injustice and hurt to the establishment of the Presidency and the operations of the federal authorities.”
The Republican president-elect’s spokesman Steven Cheung known as for the case to be dismissed in a press release. The Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace mentioned it’ll reply in court docket papers.
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 separate election interference case in opposition to him, Trump’s attorneys say it means a few of the proof used in opposition to him in his hush cash trial ought to have been shielded by presidential immunity. Merchan has disagreed.
Wednesday’s submitting is signed by John Sauer, Trump’s decide for solicitor normal, who additionally represented him earlier than the excessive court docket within the election interference case.
Related Press author Michael R. Sisak contributed to this report.
