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Donald Trump Sentencing Will Proceed After Supreme Court Declines To Stop It
Donald Trump‘s sentencing in his New York hush money trial will proceed on Friday, after the Supreme Court declined the president-elect’s emergency appeal to halt the proceedings. In an order posted this evening, the court said that “the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial […]
The justices were referring to New York Judge Juan Merchan’s indication that Trump will face no incarceration when he imposes his sentence. But Trump had still appealed Merchan’s order, as well as his refusal to dismiss his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The court said that four of the justices — Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh — would have stayed the sentencing.
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