Former President Trump seeks Supreme Court intervention to prevent a January 10th sentencing in a New York hush money case. His lawyers argue that a forced sentencing during the Presidential transition poses a risk to national security and claim he's entitled to immunity as a president-elect.
President-elect Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent Friday's sentencing in his New York criminal hush money case. In a filing Wednesday morning, defense lawyers argued that sentencing Trump - who has attempted to stop the case based on presidential immunity - would damage 'the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government.
' 'Most fundamentally, forcing President Trump to defend a criminal case and appear for a criminal sentencing hearing at the apex of the Presidential transition creates a constitutionally intolerable risk of disruption to national security and America's vital interests,' Trump's lawyers said. With their application to the Supreme Court, Trump's lawyers have asked the country's highest court for an unprecedented intervention in the ongoing criminal case of a former president -- whose appointment of three justices cemented the court's conservative majority - that would effectively toss his criminal conviction less than two weeks ahead of his inauguration. The move came after a New York appeals court on Tuesday denied Trump's request to delay the Jan. 10 sentencing. Trump was found guilty in May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment ahead of the 2016 presidential election that a judge later described as a 'premeditated and continuous deception by the leader of the free world.' Trump asked the Supreme Court to consider whether he is entitled to a stay of the proceedings during his appeal; whether presidential immunity prevents the use of evidence related to official acts; and whether a president-elect is entitled to the same immunity as a sitting president. If adopted by the justices, Trump's argument about immunity for a president-elect could expand the breadth of presidential authority, temporarily providing a private citizen with the absolute immunity reserved for a sitting president
TRUMP SUPREME COURT SENTENCING PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY HUSH MONEY
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