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NY Prosecutors Ask Supreme Court to Let Trump Sentencing Proceed

Patricia Hurtado and Erik Larson

9 January 2025 at 11:13 am·2-min read

(Bloomberg) -- Manhattan prosecutors urged the US Supreme Court to allow President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money case to proceed as planned on Friday, saying “there is no basis for such intervention.”

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The filing Thursday by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg comes a day after Trump asked the nation’s highest court to halt his sentencing while he seeks to overturn his guilty verdict. The Supreme Court could now rule at any time on Trump’s request for a delay.

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Trump is seeking to derail the criminal case before he’s sworn in as the 47th US president on Jan. 20, arguing the stigma of such a hearing would undermine his presidential transition as well as his standing with world leaders.

Trump argues that the immunity from criminal prosecution enjoyed by sitting presidents should be extended to him as president-elect. He also claims the trial he lost in May was tainted by evidence that shouldn’t have been allowed in under the Supreme Court’s revised standard on presidential immunity.

Prosecutors, in a 37-page filing, pushed back on Trump’s arguments, saying that the case involved conduct that happened before he was elected president in 2016. They also argued the high court has no jurisdiction in an ongoing state criminal case before a judge imposed a sentence, which is when appeals can begin under New York law.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, New York’s highest court also rejected a separate Trump request to stop his sentencing.

A Manhattan jury in May found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to conceal payments to an adult film star before the 2016 election. Justice Juan Merchan, who oversaw the trial, has said that he won’t sentence Trump to any jail time.

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