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President-Elect Donald Trump frantically appealed to the Supreme Court docket in a last-ditch effort to get sentencing for 34 felonies within the state of New York delayed. Not even a dialog with Justice Samuel Alito that got here underneath scrutiny might sway the court docket.
In a 5-4 determination, the court docket dominated:
The appliance for keep introduced to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court docket is denied for, inter alia, the next causes.
First, the alleged evidentiary violations at President-Elect Trump’s state-court trial could be addressed within the peculiar course on enchantment.
Second, the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect’s tasks is comparatively insubstantial in gentle of the trial court docket’s said intent to impose a sentence of “unconditional discharge” after a quick digital listening to.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with the three liberal justices to disclaim Trump a delay in sentencing.
A majority on the Supreme Court docket didn’t simply reject Trump. They embarrassed him.
