Trump bid to delay sentencing in hush money case in hands of Supreme Court after rejection by NY appeals court

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : "Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who presided over the trial, unexpectedly scheduled the proceeding to take place on Friday at 9:30 a.m. in a decision last week that upheld the guilty verdicts against Trump.
38% : Trump is now waiting to see if the Supreme Court will intervene at his behest and stop the proceeding from going forward on Friday.
36% : The case centered on payments he made to Cohen during his first year in the White House, which reimbursed his longtime former fixer for paying off porn star Stormy Daniels to silence her claims of a sordid sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
36% : The Manhattan case was the only one of four brought against Trump after his first term that made it before a jury.
30% : Though Trump is not expected to face any form of punishment, the sentencing would finalize his conviction and officially classify him as a convicted felon just 10 days before his second presidential term begins, a first in history.
23% : Trump's appeals to New York's Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court came after a lower-level New York appeals court rejected his lawyer's demands to halt the sentencing Tuesday and appeared heavily skeptical of the argument that Trump has presidential immunity as a president-in-waiting.
15% : 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 voters in 2016 that violated New York election law.

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