Trump says he respects the Supreme Court’s decision to deny his request for a stay of execution, and promises to appeal
President-elect Donald Trump said he respects of the Supreme Court decision to deny his request to stay the New York v. Trump ruling, but said Thursday night that he would appeal, stressing that the “law” was “an attack on the Republican Party.”
Trump’s comments came just moments after Supreme Court denied Trump’s emergency request to block his sentencing on Friday, January 10. The sentencing was scheduled by New York judge Juan Merchan.
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Merchan said last week that he would not sentence the president-elect to prison, but would impose an “unconditional discharge,” meaning no sentence.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“I’m the first president and probably one of the first candidates in history to be attacked with a gag order,” Trump said during a meeting at Mar-a-Lago Thursday night with the Republican governor. “This is far from over and I respect the court’s opinion.”
Trump said he thought the court’s decision was “a very good opinion for us,” noting that the judges “called for an appeal.”
“We will see how everything turns out,” he said. – I think it will turn out well.
But Trump addressed the “law” of which he is a victim, saying it “was an attack on the Republican Party.”
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“This was an attack on a Republican candidate who had just won the election with a record number of votes – the largest number of Republican votes ever won, and we won all the swing states, we won the votes of millions of people,” he said. . “They tried to prevent that from happening — they tried to prevent this election or bleed somebody so bad that they couldn’t win.”
Trump said that “the people won and we won by the most.”
Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, April 23, 2021. Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, from left are Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The Supreme Court struck down constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)
On Wednesday, Trump filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to block the Jan. 10 sentencing scheduled by Judge Juan Merchan.
“The request for an adjournment submitted to Justice Sotomayor and directed by her to the Court was denied because, among other thingsthe following reasons. First, alleged evidentiary violations in President-elect Trump’s trial in state court may be addressed in the regular appellate process,” the order said.
“Second, the burden that sentencing will impose on the president-elect’s responsibilities is relatively insignificant in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of ‘unconditional dismissal’ after a brief virtual hearing,” the court ruled.
The order also stated that “Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh will grant the request.”
Trump needed five votes to approve his request. A note on the order suggests that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett voted with Justices Sonja Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Katanji Brown Jackson.
From left to right: Judge Juan Merchan, former President Donald Trump and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. (Getty Images, AP Images)
Trump’s sentencing is now expected to move forward, with the president-elect expected to make a virtual appearance at the trial, which is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Friday.
Merchan set Trump’s sentencing in New York v. Trump for Jan. 10 after a jury found the now-president-elect guilty of first-degree falsifying business records, stemming from Manhattan District Attorney The Alvin Bragg Investigation. Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts and appealed the verdict, but Merchan rejected it last week.
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On January 20, Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
Trump maintains his innocence in the case and has repeatedly denounced it as an example of a “law” being pushed by Democrats in an attempt to hurt his election efforts ahead of November.
