Presidential candidate Donald Trump issued a plea to the Supreme Court Sunday to intervene in his hush-money case before he is sentenced.
Judge Juan Merchan is scheduled to sentence Trump on July 11, just four days before the Republican National Convention, at which the former president is presumed to be named the party’s presidential nominee. This will come over a month after the Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.
“The ‘Sentencing’ for not having done anything wrong will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday evening. “A Radical Left Soros backed D.A., who ran on a platform of ‘I will get Trump,’ reporting to an ‘Acting’ Local Judge, appointed by the Democrats, who is HIGHLY CONFLICTED, will make a decision which will determine the future of our Nation? The United States Supreme Court MUST DECIDE!”
Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, said it was unlikely Trump’s team would ask for his sentencing date to be moved. He anticipated going through with the date because they “want to move forward with an appeal,” he told CBS News.
Another Trump attorney, Will Scharf, signaled to CNN on Friday their plans to seek the Supreme Court’s opinion. “We are going to take this as high and far as we need to, including to the U.S. Supreme Court, to vindicate President Trump’s rights,” he said.
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A Manhattan jury criminally convicted Trump on Thursday after hearing testimony that he paid hush money to multiple women in 2018 who claimed they had an affair with him. Trump himself did not testify and has maintained his innocence.
The Supreme Court has been active in cases involving Trump. In March, the nation’s highest court ruled that states could not bar him from their respective ballots this November. It has also heard oral arguments for Trump’s case of presidential immunity, which is an effort to establish a precedent amid the remaining 54 charges against him filed by prosecutors across the nation.
