'0 percent chance': Missouri AG files 'nonsense' SCOTUS lawsuit to stop NY’s Trump sentencing
Thursday, July 11 — only four days before the start of the 2024 Republican National Convention — was the day that Justice Juan Merchan planned to sentence former President Donald Trump on 34 criminal charges. But in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial 6-3 presidential immunity ruling in Trump v. the United States, Merchan has rescheduled the sentencing date for September.
However, far-right Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is hoping to prevent Trump from being sentenced at all.
In State of Missouri v. State v. State of New York, filed on July 3, Bailey is asking the High Court to stay the sentencing.
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Steve Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. slammed Bailey's efforts as nonsense on X, formerly Twitter.
Vladeck tweeted, "Missouri is seeking to invoke #SCOTUS's 'original' jurisdiction to sue New York — asking the justices to stay both the gag order and the impending sentencing of former President Trump."
The Georgetown professor added, "There's a 0.0% chance even *this* Court goes along with this nonsense."
On May 30, a Manhattan jury convicted Trump on 34 criminal counts in District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.'s hush money/falsified business records case. But following the High Court's immunity ruling, Bragg and Merchan are trying to determine how Trump v. the United States affects the conviction.
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