Facing a looming sentence in a New York hush money case, Donald Trump has appealed to the US Supreme Court, requesting a postponement to prevent what he claims would be grave injustice. The request comes two days before his scheduled sentencing and amidst scrutiny over a phone call Trump made to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito regarding a former law clerk.
Donald Trump has made a last-ditch effort to quash his criminal conviction before he returns to the White House, asking the US Supreme Court to prevent him from being sentenced for falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal with a porn star.
Two days before he is due to be sentenced in the New York “hush money” case, Trump’s lawyers filed an emergency petition in the nation’s highest court to postpone the sentence “to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the presidency and the operations of the federal government”.Hours later it emerged that Trump had spoken with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito about a former law clerk, raising eyebrows among legal observers. Trump’s legal appeal comes after presiding judge Juan Merchan last week ordered Trump to be sentenced on Friday (Saturday AEDT) – 10 days before the 78-year-old Republican is sworn in as America’s 47th president – but signalled he would not serve any jail time.Alito said he took Trump’s call on Tuesday afternoon (US time) from Trump at the request of his former law clerk, William Levi, to recommend him for a job in the upcoming administration. The two did not discuss the upcoming emergency motion, or any other court matters, Alito said. “I was not even aware at the time of our conversation that such an application would be filed,” he said in the statement. He and Trump also did not discuss any other matters that could come before the court in the future, the conservative justice said. Nevertheless, Gabe Roth, executive director of the nonpartisan group Fix the Court, said the call was “an unmistakable breach of protocol”. “No person, no matter who they are, should engage in out-of-court communication with a judge or justice who’s considering that person’s case,” he said in a statemen
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