Trump asks Supreme Court to block his sentencing in New York criminal case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Trump was charged with falsifying business records, a crime under New York law, when he repaid his former attorney Michael Cohen for the $130,000 he paid to porn star Stormy Daniels just prior to the 2016 election.
38% : Trump wrote 34 checks describing these payments as legal expenses, and he was convicted on 34 counts.
30% : Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the trial, said he would not sentence Trump to prison, but he refused to delay the sentencing.
29% : The justices "should order an immediate stay of criminal proceedings against President Trump in the New York trial court, including but not limited to the criminal sentencing hearing scheduled for January 10, 2025," his attorney D. John Sauer said in an emergency appeal filed early Wednesday.
22% : "Most fundamentally, forcing President Trump to defend a criminal case and appear for a criminal sentencing hearing at the apex of the presidential transition creates a constitutionally intolerable risk of disruption to national security and America's vital interests," he wrote.

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