by Ben Whedon
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to delay former President Donald Trump’s sentencing or lift a gag order in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case until after the election, Reuters reported.
Trump is currently scheduled to face sentencing on Sept. 18. A jury in May found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a 2016 payment his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels.
The court’s decision was not the result of direct legal action from Trump, but from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who sued New York on the grounds that the gag order against Trump and the case infringed on voters’ rights to hear form him.
New York Attorney General Letitia James had asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the matter, asserting that “Missouri’s suit is based entirely on an ongoing criminal case between the Manhattan DA and former President Trump and does not present an actual controversy between sovereign States.”
“Moreover, former President Trump has already raised, and the New York state courts are already adjudicating, the same issues Missouri seeks to raise, and Missouri’s claims are patently meritless,” she also said.
Trump, for his part, lost an appeal last week to lift the remaining portions of a gag order that Judge Juan Merchan imposed as part of the case.
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Ben Whedon is a reporter at Just the News.
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