attorneys for former president Donald Trump they ask the presiding judge of New York where he is was convicted on serious charges falsifying business records to delay his sentence until after the election.
“By delaying the sentencing until after that election — it is of great importance to the entire nation,” Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanch and Emil Bowen, wrote in a letter to the judge. Juan Merchan Read.
Trump was convicted in May 34 facts about falsifying business records During the 2016 presidential election, older movie star Stormy Daniels is accused of hush money. Originally, he was supposed to be sentenced on July 11, but Merchan postponed the sentencing date Until September 18 at Trump’s request. The judge did this to give his lawyers time to present their arguments to the US Supreme Court. ruling on presidential immunity In a different Trump case, his conviction should be overturned.
Merchan was originally scheduled to rule on the motion on Sept. 6, but postponed the date to Sept. 16 after his lawyers pressed the judge for a third time to recuse himself from the case because of the alleged conflict. Judge rejected this offer in a decision earlier this week.
In her letter, Blanche argued that the time between Mercha’s immunity decision and the sentencing date was too short and that if the judge ruled against her, it would not give her client time to file a proper appeal. “One working day is an unreasonably short period of time,” Blanche wrote for the appeal.
He also argued that the Manhattan district attorney’s office should not be allowed to file a sentencing recommendation pending an immunity ruling because it would “personally and politically harm President Trump and his family and damage the institution of the Presidency.”
“Finally, bare election-interference purposes aside, there is no compelling compelling reason for the Court to keep the current sentencing date on the calendar. There is no reason to proceed with haste,” the letter said.
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Blanche’s letter also addressed the decision to deny Mercha’s motion to dismiss, adding that “the requested postponement will also prospectively mitigate the alleged conflicts and appearances of impropriety that are the subject of an ongoing congressional investigation.”
Trump and his lawyers complained that Judge Mercha was conflicted by the company his daughter worked for digital fundraising For Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign during the 2020 election. The “ongoing congressional investigation” referred to in the letter is an investigation by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a close Trump ally.
Jordan sent a letter to Merchan’s daughter on August 1, demanding all information about the work of his company, Authentic Campaigns, during the current election period. On behalf of Harris, Biden and the Democratic National Committee, and any information they have regarding Trump’s criminal case.
Company founder Mike Nellis responded to the letter on Wednesday said the company was not contracted to provide any services for the “Presidential campaign for Harris, the Presidential campaign for Biden” or the DNC in the current election and did not generally contact presidential campaigns about this work.
“The Committee is seriously misleading the public by suggesting that Authentic’s case is related to the proceedings in which a jury of Donald Trump’s peers found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records,” Nellis wrote.
He said that both he and the judge’s daughter had “faced death threats and harassment and had their reputations damaged” after “these baseless allegations came to light”.
In his latest decision denying Trump’s request to recuse himself, Merchan noted that Trump had previously made the same unsuccessful conflict claims that had been “rejected by this and higher courts.” The judge said he was “reiterating now for the third time that it should be clear by now – innuendo and mischaracterization do not create conflict.”
The judge issued a partial gag order barring Trump from publicly criticizing his daughter, individual prosecutors, court staff and their family members until the sentencing. Before the trial, Trump repeatedly criticized the judge’s daughter on social media.
In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump complained that the gag order he unsuccessfully appealed was “voter interference,” adding that he “should get the US Supreme Court involved. New York is trying to steal the election!”