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President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to block his sentencing scheduled for this week.
Judge Juan Merchan set Trump’s sentencing for Friday, explaining there is “no legal impediment” to imposing a sentence before inauguration.
Trump urged Merchan to cancel the sentencing on Monday in light of his appeal. A New York appeals court denied Trump’s request to block the sentencing on Tuesday.
“This appeal will 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,” Trump’s attorneys wrote in the emergency application to the Supreme Court. “In the meantime, the New York trial court lacks authority to impose sentence and judgment on President Trump—or conduct any further criminal proceedings against him—until the resolution of his underlying appeal raising substantial claims of Presidential immunity, including by review in this Court if necessary.”
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