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The president-elect will be sentenced in a criminal case in New York 10 days before the start of the second term.
United States President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court suspension of production in his New York criminal case involving secret money payments to an adult film star.
The court filing released Wednesday comes just two days before Trump is scheduled to be sentenced in the case.
Trump was convicted last May of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, which prosecutors said Trump made in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election to hide a potentially politically damaging affair.
Last week, Judge Juan Murchan ordered the sentencing to take place on Friday, just 10 days before Trump takes office.
At the Supreme Court, Trump's lawyers asked for an immediate stay of the sentence “to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the presidency and the operations of the federal government.”
Such a stay would give time for Trump's ongoing appeal of the case to move forward. The Supreme Court ordered prosecutors to respond to the request by Thursday.
Trump's lawyers argue that last year's Supreme Court decision, which gives presidents broad immunity from prosecution means that some of the evidence should not have been presented in the case.
They demanded that the sentence be overturned.
The appeal to the Supreme Court — the highest court in the U.S. that is dominated by a 6-3 conservative majority, including three Trump appointees — comes after two lower courts rejected Trump's request for a stay.
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The New York case made Trump the first former president in US history to be indicted. He is set to re-enter office as the first president who is also a convicted felon.
Trump has also been criminally charged in three other cases: One federal case related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election; one federal case related to the concealment and storage of classified White House documents; and one case in Georgia related to attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. there.
However, Trump's election victory was likely death knell for the two federal cases, with a longstanding Justice Department policy preventing the prosecution of sitting presidents.
US Special Counsel Jack Smith decided to dismiss both cases after Trump's victory.
The future of the case in Georgia is also uncertain, with the state's appeals court recently removing the attorney general. While the state case is not subject to the same restrictions as the federal one, it is considered unlikely to move forward while Trump is in office.
Trump's election victory in 2024. also raised difficult questions about how his sentence would play out in New York.
However, in court documents, Judge Murchan signaled he would sentence Trump to an “unconditional release,” meaning his sentence would stand but he would not face jail time, fines or probation.
