The United States Supreme Court has rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid for a stay of his sentencing hearing in New York for his business records case on Friday.
As Breitbart News reported on Wednesday, the president-elect “filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court to block his sentencing in the business records case in which a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records”:
After the verdict, New York County Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan had set sentencing for Trump for Friday, January 10, at 9:30 a.m.
The case involved Democrat New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg accusing Trump of falsifying business records by classifying payments to his then-lawyer Michael Cohen as business expenses and not campaign expenses. Bragg claimed it was done to hide his attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Trump pleaded not guilty and is…
