Published: 9:37pm, 8 Jan 2025Updated: 9:57pm, 8 Jan 2025
President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York.
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Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
The Supreme Court asked for a response from prosecutors in New York by Thursday.
Trump’s lawyers asked for an immediate stay of Friday’s sentencing “to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government.”
The Republican president-elect’s spokesman Steven Cheung called for the case to be dismissed in a statement. The Manhattan district attorney’s office said it will respond in court papers.
Merchan has indicated he will not impose jail time, fines or probation.