Disappointing for Donald Trump, surely, but not unexpected either. Trump’s lawyers applied for a stay to both the Supreme Court and to New York’s highest court to stop the sentencing hearing scheduled by Judge Juan Merchan for tomorrow morning. Had Trump’s team expected success from the appeal within the state system, they wouldn’t have bothered with the more extraordinary appeal to the Supreme Court.
The New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state, has denied President-elect Donald Trump’s request to halt his sentencing Friday in his criminal hush money case.
Trump on Wednesday launched an eleventh-hour request to New York’s highest court to pause the hush money case, on the same day that he also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his sentencing.
The court didn’t issue a ruling or statement in denying the appeal, just an order…
