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US Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to halt hush-money case sentencing
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 10 - 01 - 2025

The US Supreme Court has rejected President-elect Donald Trump's last-minute bid to halt his sentencing on Friday in the criminal hush-money case.
Trump had urged the top court to consider whether he was entitled to an automatic stay of his sentencing, but the justices rejected the application by 5-4.
Trump was found guilty of falsifying records to disguise reimbursements for a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels as legal expenses in 2016.
Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case, has indicated he will not consider a jail term for Trump.
Reacting on Thursday evening, the president-elect told reporters the case was a "disgrace", although the Supreme Court decision was a "fair decision, actually."
"It's a judge that shouldn't have been on the case," he said, apparently referring to Justice Merchan, and adding "they can have fun with their political opponent".
"The pathetic, dying remnants of the Witch Hunts against me will not distract us," he posted later on his Truth Social platform.
Two of the Supreme Court's conservative justices — John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett — joined the three liberals to deny Trump's request for a delay.
The remaining four judges — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — would have allowed Trump's bid to postpone sentencing.
Alito has been criticized for speaking to Trump just a day before the decision in a phone call when the top judge recommended one of his former law clerks for a job with the incoming president's administration.
Three lower New York courts had rejected Trump's delay attempt before the Supreme Court made its final decision on Thursday evening to let the sentencing proceed as scheduled.
The justices denied Trump's petition because they believed his concerns could be addressed during an appeal.
They also wrote that the burden of attending a sentencing was "insubstantial".
Trump's lawyers had also asked the Supreme Court to consider whether presidents-elect had immunity from criminal prosecution.
Manhattan prosecutors had urged the Supreme Court to reject Trump's petition, arguing there was a "compelling public interest" in holding the sentencing and that there was "no basis for such an intervention".
Following the jury's guilty verdict in May 2024, Trump was initially set to be sentenced in July, but his lawyers successfully persuaded Justice Merchan to delay the sentencing on three separate occasions.
Last week, Justice Merchan declared the sentencing would move forward on 10 January, just days before Trump is sworn in again as president.
The days since have seen a volley of appeals and court filings from Trump's attorneys, trying to stave off the sentencing.
But in swift succession, New York courts rejected the bids. Finally on Wednesday, Trump's lawyers petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene.
The court should stay the proceedings "to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government", they wrote.
Last year, the bench's 6-3 conservative majority handed Trump a major victory, when they ruled that US presidents had immunity from criminal prosecution for "official acts" undertaken in office.
That decision gutted a federal prosecution against Trump on charges he illegally interfered in the 2020 election outcome, which he denied and pleaded not guilty.
But since his re-election, Trump's lawyers have tried to persuade a series of judges that those presidential immunity protections should also apply to a president-elect in this Manhattan criminal case.
Manhattan prosecutors argued in their own brief to the Supreme Court that Trump's "extraordinary immunity claim is unsupported by any decision from any court".
"It is axiomatic that there is only one President at a time," the prosecutors wrote.
Separately, a group of former public officials and legal scholars filed an amicus brief — effectively a letter of support — to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to reject Trump's "attempt to avoid accountability".
In another legal setback for Trump on Thursday, a federal appeals court in Georgia rejected a bid to block the release of a portion of special counsel Jack Smith's report into Trump's alleged plot to prevent the transfer of power to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.
Lawyers for Walt Nauta, a former aide, and former Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira had argued that the release would unfairly prejudice potential future criminal cases against them. — BBC


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