Supreme Court won’t stop Trump sentencing in “hush money” criminal case

The Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort by lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump to forestall his sentencing for his New York criminal conviction. The five justice majority that voted to deny Trump’s application wrote that the evidentiary issues Trump has complained about “can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal.”  They also noted that

Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Request to Stop Sentencing in New York Case

Trump had asked the justices to consider questions about presidential immunity. The Supreme Court on Jan. 9 rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s request to halt proceedings in his New York business records case, removing a potential barrier to sentencing scheduled for Jan. 10. The brief order noted that Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and