The ex-president's lawyers cite a new Supreme Court ruling that granted him partial immunity from prosecution.

Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked for the former president’s conviction in his hush-money criminal case to be overturned and his sentencing this month delayed, US media report.

A letter sent by Trump’s lawyers to the New York judge presiding over the trial reportedly cites Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that granted the former president immunity from prosecution for official actions he took while in office.

In May, Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records. He will be sentenced on 11 July.

His team points out that he signed off the records while president in 2017, but one lawyer suggested this was unlikely to be considered an official act.

  • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    If illegally bribing a porn star to be quiet about an extra marital affair before he won the election is considered an official act of the president, then I’m officially done with this country.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Basically they’re arguing that the case against him was built partly on evidence from his time as president. I have no idea why the prosecutors have agreed to go along with that. Best guess is to keep things in the same case rather than have it go to a different trial/appeal?

      Although the Manhattan case does not center on Mr. Trump’s presidency or official acts — but rather on his personal activity during the 2016 campaign — his lawyers argued on Monday that prosecutors had built their case partly on evidence from his time in the White House. And under the Supreme Court’s new ruling, prosecutors not only cannot charge a president for any official acts, but also cannot cite evidence involving official acts to bolster other accusations.

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      In response to the letter from Mr. Trump’s lawyers, the district attorney’s office wrote that prosecutors did not oppose Mr. Trump’s request to delay the sentencing. "Although we believe defendant’s arguments to be without merit, we do not oppose his request for leave to file and his putative request to adjourn sentencing pending determination of his motion,” wrote Joshua Steinglass, one of the assistant district attorneys who tried the case against the former president.

      Source: NY Times (Gift Article Link)

    • Melkath@kbin.earth
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      5 months ago

      That’s your line?

      That line hasn’t already been crossed ten times over for you?

      Genocide? You can stomach that.

      Paying a pornstar? Now that is just unacceptable!

      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Paying a pornstar? Now that is just unacceptable!

        That person wasn’t complaining about the hush money, they were complaining about a corrupt court system, that bends the law in extreme ways, to let their appointer commit crimes without consequences.

        • logicbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          And Trump told Israel that they should “finish” Gaza.

          Trump is more genocidal than Biden, anyway.

        • 4am@lemm.eeEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem and talked a bunch of shit about how it belongs to Israel alone etc etc fueling the discontent of both Hamas and Zionists alike

          We might not even be in this mess now if it wasn’t for that shit. Motherfucker just lighting fires constantly.

          • AIhasUse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Yeah, don’t blame the murderer, blame the person who you think made the murder do the murdering. It wasn’t OJs fault, it was the rap music and violent movies!

        • Melkath@kbin.earth
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          5 months ago

          Amazing how yall cant talk about Biden without bringing up Trump, but you’re lockstep about not bringing up Biden when talking about Trump.

          Its adorable.

          PS: He also specifically said “done with this country.”

          • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            People talk about Biden all the damn time when Trump’s court corruption comes up. If I had a dollar for every time I saw a thread about Biden changing the court via packing or using the “official act” ruling, I’d be a rich man.

            People aren’t getting grumpy at you because you’re bringing up Biden, they’re getting grumpy because you want to start talking about Gaza in court corruption comment thread.

            Lemmy’s got noooo shortage of Gaza articles with comments that shit on the current president’s policies. And yes, since this is an election year, they also talk about his opponent’s policies in the region. That guy is winning in the polls and has policies that would be even worse for civilian deaths in that area. Those of us that care about saving civilian lives want to reduce military aid, not double down.

          • StinkyOnions@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            That makes absolutely no sense. This is a thread about Trump with an article posted about Trump. Yet you’re here “biden bad” when it has absolutely nothing to do with him. You’re being disengenious.