Trump asks Supreme Court to halt Friday's hush money sentencing - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : That immunity, he said, should be extended to the transition period while Trump "engages in the extraordinarily demanding task of preparing to assume the Executive power of the United States.
42% : ""The prospect of imposing sentence on President Trump just before he assumes Office as the 47th President raises the specter of other possible restrictions on liberty, such as travel, reporting requirements, registration, probationary requirements, and others-all of which would be constitutionally intolerable under the doctrine of Presidential immunity," Sauer told the court.
40% : Merchan said the current sentencing schedule was requested by Trump, who previously asked for the hearing to be postponed until after the election.
38% : But the sentencing would complete the process of Trump being formally classified as a felon -- the first former president or president-elect convicted of criminal wrongdoing.
34% : In his ruling last week, Merchan wrote that he plans to order an "unconditional discharge" for Trump, a designation in New York criminal courts for a nonjail and nonprobation sentence that carries no other obligations.
32% : The petition said Trump will also ask the New York Court of Appeals to halt his planned sentencing.
31% : Trump would need the votes of at least five of the nine justices to postpone his sentencing.
31% : After making that request, the judge said, Trump could not now credibly say that winning the election makes him immune from sentencing.
26% : The emergency petition by Trump's attorneys repeatedly cited the Supreme Court's decision in July to extend to Trump and other former presidents broad immunity from criminal prosecution for their official acts.
26% : Trump denies the encounter ever happened.
25% : The trial judge, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, has said he does not plan to sentence Trump to jail time or probation.
23% : A former Trump campaign adviser said Trump is determined to try to stop the sentencing -- even though it will carry no real punishment, and even though his other criminal cases are all dismissed or indefinitely delayed -- because he wants a clean slate.
20% : Special counsel Jack Smith has dismissed Trump as a party in the cases charging him in Florida with mishandling classified documents and in D.C. with trying to block the results of the 2020 election.
19% : A state appeals court judge on Tuesday denied Trump's request to stay the sentencing, signaling that judge's belief that Trump has a low chance of succeeding when the immunity claim is fully evaluated by the appeals court.
12% : A Georgia appeals court last month disqualified the state prosecutor leading the case accusing Trump of conspiring in that state to overturn his 2020 loss to Joe Biden.

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