Trump Turns to Supremes in Plea to Halt Friday Sentencing

President-elect Trump’s legal team is a step ahead of me . . . procedurally, anyway.

As Fox New’s Brooke Singman reported earlier (with the brief embedded), Team Trump filed an emergency petition in the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, seeking to block his sentencing in New York State criminal court, which is scheduled for Friday morning. (For present purposes, New York nomenclature is confusing: Merchan’s tribunal is also called the Supreme Court even though it is actually a lower, trial court. I am thus referring to it as criminal court.)

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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President-elect Trump’s legal team is a step ahead of me . . . procedurally, anyway.

As Fox New’s Brooke Singman reported earlier (with the brief embedded), Team Trump filed an emergency petition in the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, seeking to block his sentencing in New York State criminal court, which is scheduled for Friday morning. (For present purposes, New York nomenclature is confusing: Merchan’s tribunal is also called the Supreme Court even though it is actually a lower, trial court. I am thus referring to it as criminal court.)

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.