Former US President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom during his secret trial in Manhattan Criminal Court on April 26, 2024 in New York City.
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The president-elect's lawyers Donald Trump He sought to disrupt his schedule Judgment Later this week in New York criminal Hush money The case, according to a new judicial decision.
Trump's lawyers told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan in the lawsuit announced Monday that they would appeal his ruling rejecting their efforts to dismiss the criminal case.
The motion argues that the appeal should automatically stay the ruling, scheduled for Friday, and that if Merchan does not agree, he should still grant Trump an immediate stay of the action pending the outcome of the appeal. It may take months to resolve this appeal.
It was Trump convicted Among the 34 criminal charges filed in May for falsifying business records were a 2016 hush-money payment to a porn star. Stormy Daniels Shortly before the presidential election that year.
Merchan said last week that he was not inclined to sentence Trump to prison in the case, and also suggested he would impose a sentence that would not include probation or a fine.
On the same day, Merchan rejected arguments that he should drop the case in light of a US Supreme Court ruling that presidents enjoy presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts while serving in the White House, and because of the Constitution's Supremacy Clause.
In a statement on Monday, Trump spokesman Stephen Cheung said: “Today, President Trump’s legal team moved to stop the illegal ruling in the Manhattan witch hunt.”
“The Supreme Court’s landmark decision on immunity, the New York State Constitution, and other well-established legal precedent require that this baseless hoax be dismissed immediately,” Cheung said.
Trump is scheduled to be sworn in as president for his second non-consecutive term in the White House on January 20.
