Hours after the Supreme Court ruled Monday that presidents have “absolute” immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office, Donald Trump moved to have his hush money conviction in New York tossed.
According to CNN, in a letter to the judge overseeing the case, the former president’s legal team sought permission on Monday to file a motion to challenge the verdict. The filing arrived 10 days before Judge Juan Merchan was set to sentence Trump for his crimes in the Manhattan case, where the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from a payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
In the letter, Trump’s attorneys asked the judge to move the sentencing to next week, and argued that the immunity decision confirmed their stance that District Attorney Alvin Bragg did not have the authority to…
