The US Supreme Court will not intervene to stop Judge Merchan from sentencing Trump, following the New York Appeals Court’s decision earlier this week to deny Trump’s request to delay Friday’s sentencing.
Five justices denied Trump’s bid to stop Judge Merchan’s sentencing, while the four remaining conservative justices supported his application to delay the sentencing.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett shockingly sided with the liberal justices on the court.
“Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch would have granted Trump’s application for a postponement of sentencing, the majority wrote,” CBS News notes.
As reported by CBS News:
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 the judge overseeing Trump’s New York case has signaled he will not sentence Trump to serve any time in jail, writing “the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of ‘unconditional discharge’ after a brief virtual hearing.”
Appointing Amy Coney Barrett seems to have been a monumental mistake.
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