President-elect Donald Trump filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court on Wednesday to block his sentencing in the business records case in which a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records. After the verdict, New York County Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan had set sentencing for Trump for Friday, January 10, at 9:30 a.m.
The case involved Democrat New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg accusing Trump of falsifying business records by classifying payments to his then-lawyer Michael Cohen as business expenses and not campaign expenses. Bragg claimed it was done to hide his attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election. Trump pleaded not guilty to all the charges and appealed the case, which Merchan rejected last week. The president-elect’s filing to the Supreme Court came after a New York judge on Tuesday denied his motion to stay Friday’s sentencing. Merchan said he is not likely to “impose any sentence of incarceration” or impose any punishment, but a top Trump adviser called the case a hoax and said the sentencing is “unlawful.”President Trump’s legal team filed an emergency petition with the United States Supreme Court, asking the Court to correct the unjust actions by New York courts and stop the unlawful sentencing in the Manhattan D.A.’s Witch Hunt. The Supreme Court’s historic decision on Immunity, the Constitution, and established legal precedent mandate that this meritless hoax be immediately dismissed. American People elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate that demands an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and all of the remaining Witch Hunts. We look forward to uniting our country in the new administration as President Trump makes America great again. Trump’s lawyers argued in a petition to the Supreme Court that it should stay the proceedings pending the final resolution of Trump’s “interlocutory appeal raising questions of Presidential immunity”,