Supreme Court Denies Trump’s Request to Halt Hush Money Sentencing
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney-Barrett joined the three Democratic appointees.
President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in the New York City hush money case will go forward on Friday since the Supreme Court won’t block it.
The ruling was 5-4. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney-Barrett voted with Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The application for stay presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is denied for, inter alia, the following reasons. First, the alleged evidentiary violations at President-Elect Trump’s state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal. Second, 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.
A jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records to pay off Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair.
Judge Juan Merchan refused to throw out the guilty verdict, scheduling the sentencing for January 10, ten days before the inauguration.
However, Merchan hinted that Trump won’t face any punishment.
Merchan said it’s “proper at this juncture” to inform everyone that it’s the “Court’s inclination to not impose any sentence of incarceration, a sentence authorized by the conviction but one the People concede they no longer view as a practicable recommendation.”
“As such; in balancing the aforementioned considerations in conjunction with the underlying concerns of the Presidential immunity doctrine, a sentence of an unconditional discharge appears to be the most viable solution to ensure finality and allow Defendant to pursue his appellate options,” Merchan added.
The lawyers asked Merchan to stay the sentencing because Trump appealed the judge’s decision.
Trump’s lawyers claimed the appeal automatically triggers a stay.
When Merchan and an appeals court said no, Trump went to the Supreme Court.
So Merchan will sentence Trump. Even if he doesn’t receive punishment, he’ll be a felon.
……There is an overriding preference among appellate judges for the finalizing of cases with sentencing so that the entire case can be reviewed. Justice Amy Coney Barrett also joined the liberal justices in the 5-4 decision…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 10, 2025
…For many of us, Merchan will be rendering a final judgment not just on Trump but the New York courts. The New York courts failed to prevent this weaponization of the legal system…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 10, 2025
…Even CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig denounced the case as legally flawed and unprecedented. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) recently put it more simply and called the case total “b—s–t.” The whole case can now work its way eventually back to the United States Supreme Court.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 10, 2025
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My money is on Merchan gleefully giggling inside as he solemnly proclaims Trump guilty, guilty, guilty 34 times in a row, then charges him something like a million (or a thousand) dollars in fines per offense. Then he happily takes his multi-million dollar bribe/book advance and goes on to the loud cries of joy from the Left as they screech “Convicted felon!” every time they say Trump’s name from now to eternity.
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He’s still the most powerful man in the world. And all the lawfare bullets just bounce off his chest like marshmallows.
this will also give the Dems/Rinos a new excuse to impeach,…if a convicted felon can’t vote, how can a convicted felon be in the Oval Office
What law says a convicted felon cannot hold high office?
I never said that there was, I’m predicting what the Dems will use as an excuse to impeach
A bullshit argument from a party who routinely rejoices in re-electing notorious convicted felons to offices like Mayor of Providence and Mayor of Washington DC.
Who says convicted felons can’t vote? In Dem states they usually can.
NY allows felons who have completed their sentences to vote. Since there are no penalties in the sentence, he has completed his sentence.
Of course .The laws don’t apply to the almighty him, the cult leader. He
gets to pick and choose which ones he can pay attention, to. Why?Because he’s such a awesome leader who is too busy making America Great to be bothered by following the law. Of course his nitwit cult supports anything he does . Remember that one time he was honest and admitted what a cult follows him and how stupid they are? ” I could shoot somebody in broad daylight on 5th avenue and these gullibe rubes would still vote for me” .Boy was he ever telling the truth, huh?
Bless your heart.
Take your meds, schizo.
What a maroon.
Take a hike, Johnny. Hopefully the moderators ban ya.
1) A court’s intent is not binding, Merchan can change his mind up to the time he imposes sentences.
2) Robert’s disdain for Trump has been evident since 2017
3) At the time that Barrett was nominated, I posted here that she was a snake in the grass and that Trump would rue the day that he nominated her…..that got me 13 down votes.
4) SCOTUS screwed up when it took it upon itself to amend the Constitution with its presidential immunity decision,..now every corrupt federal judge can rule that any action by a president is not “official” hamstringing a president until the multi-year appeals process takes place
On the 20th we should all send Sotomayor a box of donuts. Then her replacement will make her irrelevant.
Actually federal judges are an entity unto themselves,..they are answerable to not one, Roberts will not even go to Congress to explain himself
Sorry, I meant Sotomayor’s replacement will make Barret irrelvant.
I got it
IMO ACB is not a conservative, but just dressed up in anti-abortion clothing; and Trump fell for it. In ten years she could evolve into RBG, whose seat she took. Trump made a lot of bad appointments in his first term, with this having the longest lasting effect.
I am with you on ACB always seemed like a centrist pick, eg no spine and risky.
I was nervous then and still nervous now that she could continue to evolve left over time.
Elena Kagan is the evil one constantly working to pull the others left. The other two are much too weak in their legal argument skills to command much respect from their peers. They just vote the progressive line.
ACB reminds me of the kiss ass goddy two shoes from elementary school, you remember the one that tried to be the teacher’s pet? She is playing that role with Roberts
Merchan could but SCOTUS’s ruling was partially based on Merchan saying he wasn’t going to impose jail time. If he backs out of that now I doubt SCOTUS will react nicely.
I doubt that SCOTUS would react at all
Yup. Bunch of p*ssies.
Roberts and Looney Barrett. Again. These two never quit.
Living a farce they call law when ALL of them know the episode is unlawful. This is not like a fumble where the refs let it play out. This is a dark day for law.
Just another scene of how Trump gets on Rushmore, assuming he pulls it off in spite of them.
They could have stayed the matter. There are no other issues, in truth.
Maybe Merchan will stay imposition of sentence pending appeal. But he, like others, are too bent on ruining law out of deranged hatered, even after the people have repudiated their efforts, and the Supremes are allowing THAT to happen.
What the court did is unspeakably disgusting.
Barrett is lost. Roberts was lost before TDS.
Last time I felt like this was Obama care decision.
Roberts either intellectually or criminally compromised.
Me guess is the latter,..the adoption of his two children is suspicious,..a sister, if I remember correctly, claimed they were acquired in a “private adoption” in Central America, where blonde haired blue eyed orphans are a rarity,…Roberts had property interests in Ireland and traveled there but Ireland has a law that only Irish citizens can adopt Irish orphans. If Roberts got his two Irish orphans in Centra; America, the he was involved in human trafficking. I still believe that the fear of that coming out is what pressured him to switch his Obamacare vote,..remember he reportedly wrote what ended up being the dissent, initially as the majority opinion
Actually, Merchan is just a paid political whore. Apparently, it’s the family business.
I’m still hoping for a Trump act of civil disobedience when he tells Merchan he’s not playing his silly game and refuses to attend sentencing, either in person or virtually.
Of course .The laws don’t apply to the almighty him, the cult leader. He
gets to pick and choose which ones he can pay attention, to. Why?Because he’s such a awesome leader who is too busy making America Great to be bothered by following the law. Of course his nitwit cult supports anything he does . Remember that one time he was honest and admitted what a cult follows him and how stupid they are? ” I could shoot somebody in broad daylight on 5th avenue and these gullibe rubes would still vote for me” .Boy was he ever telling the truth, huh?
Illiterate copy/paste troll says what?
Something tells me that the sentence will be to rob him of a big chunk of his money.
The Supreme Court can’t in principle fix what in fact depends on conventions not being broken. The law can’t be its own foundation.
If it tries, it sets an illegal precedent, screwing up future law.
So what? He’s not estopped from changing his mind at the last minute.
Amy…always knew she was a Trojan horse
By the way, Trump should refused to show up, maybe take a short 10 day trip out of the Country….
Nah, just stay in Mar a Lago and thumb his nose
He is going to stay in Mar a Largo. The judge told him he could do it remotely.
The case is a farce to be sure but I think the ruling was the correct one. Trump can and will appeal. In all likely hood win, too
“First, the alleged evidentiary violations at President-Elect Trump’s state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal. Second, 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.”
I can actually understand the above statement, when we have a sane judiciary not weaponised by hatred and Democrats.
However the case itself was never an example of a sane case to begin with and in an actual sane world would never have seen the right of day.
And I think this is the problem with AMB and Roberts in their reasoning…what they are saying is absolutely right but that only applies in a justice system that has not been corrupted by Democrats and their hatred of Trump.
We sadly do not live in the world but these two dont want to see that.
The outcome will be weaponised by the left in their attempts at undermining Trump and his administration at every turn these next 4 years.
Justice Roberts often favors procedure of substance. While that may be an admirable quality in lower court judge, the Supreme Court is tasked with making substantive decisions on law.
If Justice Roberts had been Chief Justice in 2000, Al Gore would have become President of the United States.
“procedure over substance”
I say don’t show and put NY on the raider for what they done. Make them pay by cutting funding. We should have a class action suit against NY for hurting our country with this Civil Rights Violation. Maybe $100 fine for Civil Right Violation per Trump Voter. It can be used to fund taking down lawfare.
This is the same court that is unable to identify the abortion case leaker. There is absolutely no way that the leaker is not only known, but provably guilty beyond any doubt. This fairytale was propagated to protect the reputation of the court because one or more justices is complicit.
It always makes me crack up is how all the phony law and order ‘conservatives’ here do every kind of mental gymnastics to defend this slimeball and attack the legal system. 3 frauds, sexual assault, libel, 91 indictments, 2 impeachments. But #HE’s# the good guy and all the prosecutors, investigators ,and judges and juries are the bad guys. Sick effs.
I really pissed off a lib at work when she brought up that Trump is going to be a Felon. I just asked her to show me the place where it says a felon can’t be president?
I literally thought blood was gonna shoot out of her ears.