President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday in his New York hush money case after the Supreme Court refused to postpone the sentencing. The decision was made in a 5-4 ruling Thursday evening.
Trump is poised to return to the White House as the 47th President of the United States on January, 20, 2025 after he was elected in the November election.
However, prior to his election, Trump was dealing with a slew of criminal and civil cases against him.
The hush money trial first began on April 15 2024, one year after the President-elect was charged with 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in an attempt to silence his alleged mistress, Stormy Daniels, ahead of his 2016 run for president, which prosecutor Alvin Bragg claimed directly impacted the election.
In May 2024 a jury found the former president guilty on all counts of the 34 counts.
The sentencing date was originally delayed to come after the November 5 election date and Trump has taken his case all the way to the Supreme Court to ask for it to postponed further.
But America’s highest court rejected the emergency request; four conservative justices – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh – said they would have granted Trump’s request.
In a brief statement, the court said that Trump’s concerns could be handled “in the ordinary course on appeal,” and that the burden of sentencing would impose “relatively insubstantial” restrictions on Trump in light of the New York judge who oversaw Trump’s trial signaling that the 78-year-old will face neither penalties nor prison time.
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