Donald Trump, convicted criminally for hidden payments to an X-rated movie star, appealed to the Supreme Court with a conservative majority to try to escape the pronouncement of his sentence scheduled for Friday, ten days before his inauguration, according to an appeal published Wednesday.
In this document dated Tuesday, the lawyers of the man who will become the 47th President of the United States on January 20 call for “an emergency stay to prevent the criminal proceedings from continuing in a court in the State of New York, including including a sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday January 10 at 9:30 a.m.
The Supreme Court “must immediately suspend the proceedings of the New York (criminal) court to prevent a serious injustice and an attack on the presidential institution and the functioning of the federal government”, insist the lawyers, who continue to invoke their client’s “presidential immunity”.
Since Monday, the Trump camp has suffered refusals from the Manhattan court judge who presided over the trial and then from an appeals court to freeze the procedure and postpone Friday’s hearing.
Unless this appeal is successful before the Federal Supreme Court in Washington – six of the nine judges of which are conservatives – Donald Trump’s sentence will be pronounced on Friday at 2:30 p.m. GMT.
The person concerned can appear in person or remotely by video during this historic, but very symbolic, hearing, the judge having already ruled out a prison sentence and even a fine.
After six weeks of trial in the middle of the electoral campaign, in an electric climate, Donald Trump on May 30 became the first former American president (2017-2021) to be convicted by the criminal justice system.
Twelve jurors found him guilty of 34 counts of accounting falsification to hide from voters the payment of US$130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels, in an attempt to avoid a sex scandal at the very end of his first campaign. victorious in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump, who has denied any sexual relationship with the actress, has always denounced a political trial hatched by a court in the hands of his adversaries.
He managed to escape any criminal trial in the three other cases in which he was charged, including the most serious in federal justice for his allegedly illegal attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election lost against Joe Biden.
