The United States Supreme Court on Friday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to block a sentencing hearing in New York in his business records case.
As Breitbart News reported on Wednesday, the president-elect “filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court to block his conviction in a business records case in which a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records”:
Following the verdict, New York County Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan scheduled Trump’s sentencing 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 misclassifying payments to his then-lawyer Michael Cohen as business expenses and misclassifying them as campaign expenses. Bragg claimed this was done to cover up his attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Trump has pleaded not guilty and is objecting to both the process and the outcome of the trial, which Merchan dismissed last week.
Despite the upcoming sentencing, Judge Merchan is not expected to impose any prison time on the President-elect.
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the president-elect’s request to halt the sentence, with Justices Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts siding with the liberals.
“This deeply disappointing decision allows a radical, partisan hack of a prosecutor to continue violating the Constitution to the detriment of the nation,” said Ken Klukosky, senior legal contributor to Breitbart News. , who filed a brief endorsing President-elect Trump. “The Supreme Court held last year that a denial of presidential immunity before a case can proceed is entitled to review by appellate courts. This means that President Trump’s immunity claim should have been reviewed before a final decision was made, and if the review could not be completed by the time President Trump was inaugurated, the case should have been dismissed before January 20.
Klukowski further said, “Bragg has committed numerous constitutional violations in the course of his ruling against President Trump, and Justice Merchan has committed numerous reversible errors in addition.” “The Court could have stopped this travesty, and four justices voted to do so, but one vote will allow this shameful event in our history to continue for some time to come.”
He said, “The only hopeful aspect of this horrific persecution of a political opponent is that President Trump can now take this case on appeal.” “He may have to take it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and it may take most of his upcoming term, but President Trump should eventually be able to reverse this miscarriage of justice. But all that aside, the American people saw this law for what it is, and Bragg and Merchant failed to stop President Trump. By the end of his second term, President Trump will be convicted as an innocent man.
