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.

  • DxK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This is just desperate flailing. He wasn’t President at the time. The Presidential Immunity the Supremely corrupt Court gifted him yesterday does not apply.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      He was president when he falsified records, which is the crime he was convicted of, not paying off a porn star.

    • Omega_Man@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Per logic. Per fedsoc, yes, those were official acts. Baby Donnie’s first shit was an official act.