Donald Trump skipped key step in blocking sentencing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Trump will be inaugurated for a second White House term on January 20.
44% : With Trump, many of his legal actions are desperate until they succeed.
42% : "Intervention by the Supreme Court prior to sentencing in a state criminal case isn't something that occurs," he said.
35% : New York state's Court of Appeals confirmed to Newsweek on Wednesday that it has not received any filing from Trump or his lawyers about the matter, even though Trump's team said the president-elect was "now simultaneously filing an application for an emergency stay to the New York Court of Appeals" in the team's Wednesday filing with the U.S. Supreme Court.
32% : "Michael McAuliffe told Newsweek: "Nothing about Donald Trump and the legal system is normal, so we'll all wait to see how the state and federal courts address his latest moves--moves that would be characterized as desperate in any other circumstance.
30% : "Forcing President Trump to prepare for a criminal sentencing in a felony case while he is preparing to lead the free world as President of the United States in less than two weeks imposes an intolerable, unconstitutional burden on him that undermines these vital national interests," Tuesday's filing states.
28% : Trump has denied the encounter took place.
27% : Last May, Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a crime after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
27% : The case involved a hush money payment of $130,000 to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who alleged she and Trump had a sexual encounter in 2006, shortly before the 2016 election.
27% : "McAuliffe told Newsweek, "If the Trump legal team misrepresented to the Supreme Court the filing status of a contemporaneous filing in New York's highest court, that would pose both a credibility issue and a possible procedure hurdle for Trump.
24% : Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Newsweek, "Trump has federal constitutional arguments related to presidential immunity, but normally defendants in state cases must exhaust state appeals before they can appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
22% : "Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Newsweek: "The Supreme Court justices have thrown Trump a procedural lifeline before, though.
11% : "Trump attorneys John Sauer and Todd Blanche told the Supreme Court in Tuesday's filing: "President Trump is already suffering grave irreparable injury from the disruption and distraction that the trial court abruptly inflicted by suddenly scheduling a sentencing hearing for the President-Elect of the United States, on five days' notice, at the apex of the Presidential transition.

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