Former President Donald Trump has requested the Supreme Court to halt his upcoming trial in New York related to hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump's legal team argues that he is entitled to presidential immunity.
The court has asked New York prosecutors to respond to Trump 's request by Thursday morning, giving the justices time to act before the sentencing proceeding. 'This Court should enter an immediate stay of further proceedings in the New York trial court to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government,' Trump 's lawyers wrote in the new filing.
They argue that the case should not go forward because Trump was protected by presidential immunity, as recognized by the Supreme Court earlier this year. 'The Supreme Court’s historic decision on Immunity, the Constitution, and established legal precedent mandate that this meritless hoax be immediately dismissed,' Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement. in May of falsifying records related to hush money that his then-attorney Michael Cohen paid adult film star Stormy Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 presidential election. Daniels testified she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, a claim he has denied., who presided over the trial, initially postponed Trump’s scheduled sentencing in July in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling setting a new Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly But Merchan later concluded Trump does not have immunity until he is sworn in as president. He then directed The Supreme Court's contentious presidential immunity ruling came in the separate case in which Trump was charged with seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. With Trump about to become president again, that case has now been dropped. Trump's Supreme Court request was filed by lawyer D. John Sauer, who the president-election intends to appoint as solicitor general, his administration's top courtroom advocate. Another Trump lawyer listed on the filing, Todd Blanche, is Trump's pick to be deputy attorney general.Chicago Weathe
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