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Appeals Court Judge Refuses to Halt Trump’s Sentencing in Hush-Money Case [1]

['Ben Protess', 'Kate Christobek', 'Wesley Parnell']

Date: 2025-01-07

A New York appellate court on Tuesday declined to halt President-elect Donald J. Trump’s criminal sentencing, damping his hopes of shutting down the case before returning to the White House.

Mr. Trump, who is scheduled to face sentencing on Friday, 10 days before being sworn in for a second presidential term, had asked the state appeals court to intervene and freeze the proceeding. His lawyers, who are now likely to file a last-minute appeal in federal court, had argued that Mr. Trump was entitled to full immunity from prosecution, and even sentencing, now that he was the president-elect.

The emergency application went to a single appellate court judge, Ellen Gesmer, who held a brief hearing on Tuesday before denying Mr. Trump’s request 30 minutes later.

At the hearing, Justice Gesmer appeared highly skeptical of Mr. Trump’s arguments, grilling his lawyer about whether he had “any support for a notion that presidential immunity extends to president-elects?”

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/nyregion/trump-criminal-sentencing-appeal.html

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