Trump asks Supreme Court to stop sentencing in hush money case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : " Justice Sonia Sotomayor, assigned to emergency requests filed in New York, asked the Manhattan district attorney's office to respond to the request by Thursday at 10 a.m. In a ruling denying Trump's request to vacate a jury's guilty verdict against Trump and dismiss the underlying indictment, Merchan on Friday unexpectedly scheduled Trump's sentencing for 10 days before his inauguration.
33% : The Manhattan criminal case was the only one of four brought against Trump after his first term that made it before a jury.
18% : Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in his criminal hush money case and stop his sentencing from going ahead on Friday.
17% : A jury on May 30 found Trump, 78, guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from a scheme to hide embarrassing details about his past from the electorate in 2016.
13% : "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," reads the emergency petition filed by Trump lawyers.
10% : The judge said he was inclined to impose an unconditional discharge, meaning Trump would not face jail time or any other punishment, and said Trump could appear by video.

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