OAN Staff Sophia Flores
4:45 PM – Thursday, January 9, 2025
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has denied President-elect Donald Trump’s request to stop the sentencing in his so-called “hush money” case in New York.
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In a 5-4 ruling on Thursday, SCOTUS rejected Trump’s emergency request to delay the proceeding.
Four of the five conservative justices on the bench, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanagh voted to approve Trump’s request. However, Trump-appointed justice Amy Coney Barrett voted against it with the Democrat justices. In January 2024, she also previously sided with the Biden administration on a border measure.
In a brief order, the justices gave two reasons for the decision.
“First, the alleged evidentiary violations at president-elect Trump’s state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal. Second, the burden that sentencing will impose on the president-elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of ‘unconditional discharge’ after a brief virtual hearing.”
Trump is set to be sentenced on Friday, just ten days before he is set to be inaugurated on January 20th for a second term.
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