Former President Donald Trump's lawyers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and halt his sentencing in a criminal case stemming from hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal the payment. The sentencing is scheduled for 10 days before Trump's inauguration as president, raising the possibility of a delay. Manhattan prosecutors oppose Trump's request, arguing that there is no basis for the Supreme Court to intervene in a pending state criminal trial.
Donald Trump attends a press conference, the day after a guilty verdict in his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, at Trump Tower in New York on May 31, 2024.request to halt the president-elect’s sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, with a decision on a possible delay now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court .
The sentencing is set for 10 days before Trump is due to be sworn in for his second term as president. Any substantial delay would likely mean Trump would not be sentenced before his Jan. 20 inauguration. Sauer is Trump’s pick to serve as U.S. solicitor general, the government’s chief lawyer at the Supreme Court. Trump was found guilty last May of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence before the 2016 U.S. election about a sexual encounter she has said she had with Trump a decade earlier, which he has denied.
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