A Manhattan judge has denied former President Donald Trump's request to halt his sentencing proceedings in the hush money case while he appeals a ruling that upheld his conviction. Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday, just over a week before his inauguration.
Trump was initially set to be sentenced last July, but that court hearing was delayed until after the 2024 presidential election due to the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan ordered on Monday sentencing to proceed as scheduled on Friday, a little more than a week before Trump's inauguration.
The judge rejected a push by Trump's lawyers to postpone it indefinitely while they ask a state appeals court to reverse his decision last week that let the conviction stand. 'The Court should vacate the sentencing hearing scheduled for January 10, 2025, and suspend all further deadlines in the case until President Trump's immunity appeals are fully and finally resolved, which should result in a dismissal of this case, which should have never been brought in the first place,' said Trump's legal team in their appeals filing. 'Justice Merchan's erroneous decisions threaten the institution of the Presidency and run squarely against established precedent disallowing any criminal process against a President-Elect, as well as prohibiting the use of evidence of a President’s official acts against him in a criminal proceeding,' the filing continued. The court ruling comes as Trump was certified as the winner of the 2024 presidential election on Monday, four years to the day in which he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss and his supporters stormed the US Capitol in a deadly riot. The Manhattan district attorney's office urged the judge to deny any further postponement of Trump's sentencing
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