The US Supreme Court put off Donald Trump’s federal election subversion trial in February by agreeing to look into his claims of presidential immunity. Their decision on Monday raises new problems that could mean the trial is put off for even longer.
A letter that Donald Trump’s lawyers are said to have given to the judge in charge of his hush money trial in New York seems to be an attempt to delay the ruling and keep him from being sentenced after the Supreme Court decided to partially protect him from prosecution. The former president has been charged with four crimes, but he is only likely to be held criminally responsible once, when he is sentenced. This will be before Election Day, when he is trying to win back the White House.
Manhattan D.A. Expected to Recommend Trump Sentencing
On Monday, Donald Trump’s lawyers asked the New York judge who handled his hush money trial to throw out his conviction and delay his sentence, which was set to happen the following week. The letter that The Associated Press got says that Judge Juan M. Merchan was asked to delay Trump’s sentence while he thinks about how the US Supreme Court’s decision in the New York case will affect him. The letter talked about the court’s previous decision from Monday.
The lawyers say that the Supreme Court’s decision supported a position that the defense had taken earlier in the case: that the prosecution should not have been able to show certain evidence that they said showed official acts of the president.
In past court papers, Trump has said that he should not be charged for things he did while he was in office that were considered official business. In the hush money case, his lawyers did not use that defense, but they did say that some evidence, like Trump’s comments on social media criticizing his former lawyer Michael Cohen, came from while he was president and should have been protected from trial by immunity laws.
Trump requests the overturned of the hush money conviction
American news outlets say that Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked that his sentence be put off until later this month and that the decision in his hush money case be thrown out. The Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to protect the former president from being prosecuted for things he did as president is said to be mentioned in a letter that Trump’s lawyers sent to the New York judge in charge of the trial. In May, a jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of changing business records. The judge will decide his sentence on July 11. His lawyers say that the records that he signed off on while he was president in 2017 should be looked at.
In the same way, lawyers said the same thing last year: the claims in the lawsuit included official actions that were part of his job as president. He thought the Supreme Court’s ruling was a huge win for democracy. The judges decided that the president was immune from being sued for “official acts,” but not for “unofficial acts.” The ruling was about a different lawsuit against Trump. In that case, he is accused of trying to change the results of the 2020 presidential election in a way that gave Joe Biden the win.
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On Monday, the prosecutors in the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump are likely to suggest that the MAGA leader be sent to prison. Alvin Bragg, the district attorney for Manhattan, will give Judge Juan Merchan his suggestion. However, until Trump is punished on July 11, the suggestion for a punishment may not be made public. Trump might not have to go to jail for up to four years if everything goes well. The Times says that the court does not have to send Trump to jail and can choose to wait until after he might have finished his second term.
Prosecutors said Trump paid porn star Stormy Daniels hush money to hide a tryst they had before the 2016 election. In May, he was found guilty on 34 counts of forging company records. Trump is being charged with four crimes in New York, Florida, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. Only the lawsuit in New York is expected to be settled before the 2024 election. The Supreme Court’s decision on Monday about presidential immunity likely gave Trump a lot of protection from being charged for his actions as president, since his past criminal cases were delayed a lot.
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A New York jury found President Trump guilty on May 30 of 34 felonies, including making up financial records to hide the fact that his former lawyer Michael Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in return for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter in 2006. It is possible that this is the last court case Trump has to deal with before the election.
The Democratic Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, said that Trump was trying to hide breaking election rules by using Cohen’s real estate firm records to bill him for monthly legal fees. He is likely to be punished on July 11.