President-elect Donald Trump requested a delay in Friday’s sentencing hearing for the hush money event in New York City, in which he was found guilty of 34 crimes for illegally referring to payments made to lawyers as lawful expenses, but the Supreme Court denied his request.
The president has no other options but to ask Judge Juan Merchan to stop his imprisonment on Friday night, just 10 days before Trump reclaims the Oval Office, as the higher court ruled on Thursday evening. The judge’s three communist judges joined Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett to challenge Trump’s final push to postpone the Merchan’s court proceedings.
In the simple, one-page ruling, the justices in the majority provided two motives for their choice.
” First, the reported factual violations at President-Elect Trump’s state-court test can be addressed in the regular training on appeal”, they wrote. Next, given the trial court’s stated intention to establish a word of “unconditional discharge” following a simple online hearing, the burden that sentencing may implement on the President-Elect’s responsibilities is reportedly insignificant.
Trump’s lawyers had requested that the Supreme Court hold the hearings until the New York court system’s appeal process is over.
Four of the court’s conservative justice, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, said they would had granted Trump’s request to postpone Friday’s punishment.
A Manhattan judge last month found Trump guilty of 34 crimes for a$ 130, 000 “hush money” pay to sexual owner Stormy Daniels in 2016. Although the statute of limitations on the atrocities had already passed, Alvin Bragg, the state’s top prosecutor, had launched a campaign to prosecute the past and now-current leader. Bragg re-opened the investigation and received , federal assistance , to pursue charges , previously declined , by the Federal Election Commission ( FEC ), the Department of Justice ( DOJ), and the Southern District of New York’s U. S. attorney’s office.  ,
Judge Merchan, a Democrat donor whose child raised millions to fight Trump, denied the president-elect’s plea to postpone the sentencing past week but signaled no jail time may be ordered.
Trump responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling by posting a message on Truth Social, saying he would continue to challenge his legal faith.
” This was nothing more than the use of our justice system to attack a political defender,” the author asserts. It’s called Lawfare, and nothing like this has ever happened in the United States of America, and it should never be allowed to occur again”, Trump said. ” To this day, this very political and corrupt Judge has issued me a gag order, which deprives me of my First Amendment right to speak about extremely significant issues of the case. For the purpose and purity of the Presidency, I will be appealing this circumstance, and am convinced that JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL”.
