New York’s highest court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to postpone his sentencing in the hush money case, leaving the Supreme Court as Trump’s last chance to stop his Friday sentencing.
In their Thursday response to the defense’s Court of Appeals filing, Manhattan prosecutors claim Trump counsel is relying on federal procedure and federal cases that do not apply in a New York state criminal proceeding in their attempts to assert sentencing is precluded by presidential immunity.
Prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office urged the Supreme Court not to "take the extraordinary step" of preventing the sentencing.
New York's highest court ruled on whether President-elect Donald Trump's criminal sentencing in his New York hush money case will go forward Friday.
Trump asked a New York appeals court to dismiss his hush money conviction, citing immunity and arguing sentencing before his inauguration violates the law.
President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York
New York's highest court declined to block Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing in his hush money case Thursday, leaving the U.S. Supreme Court as the president-elect's likely last option to prevent the hearing from taking place Friday.
New York’s highest court has declined to block Donald Trump’s upcoming sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the Supreme Court as his likely last option to prevent Friday's hearing.
President-elect Donald J. Trump is trying to expunge his conviction before he is inaugurated. He would be the first felon elected to the Oval Office.
Lawyers for Donald Trump argued that the president-elect would be irreparably harmed if sentenced in the New York criminal case.
Trump filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in another last-ditch effort to push off the sentencing hearing in his Manhattan hush money case.