Judge postpones Trump's hush-money sentence to assess Supreme Court immunity ruling

Former President Donald Trump's sentencing in his bribery case has been postponed until at least September after a judge agreed Tuesday to weigh the possible impact of a new Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.

Trump was scheduled to go on trial July 11 on charges of falsifying business records. He denies any wrongdoing.

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The decision to postpone the sentence was made on September 18, well after the Republican National Convention, where Trump is scheduled to formally accept the party's nomination for president to run for the White House this year. The convention will run from July 15 to 18.

A Supreme Court ruling Monday granted broad immunity protections to presidents, while barring prosecutors from citing official acts as evidence to try to prove that a president's unofficial actions violated the law.

Hours after its publication, Trump's lawyer asked New York Judge Juan M. Merchan to overturn the jury's guilty verdict and delay sentencing to consider how the Supreme Court's decision might affect the hush-money case.

He wrote that he would rule on September 6 and that the next date for reviewing the case would be September 18, “if necessary.”

Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday they would not oppose delaying sentencing for at least two weeks.

In their brief filed Monday, defense lawyers argued that Manhattan prosecutors gave “significantly prejudicial weight to evidence of official acts,” including Trump’s social media posts and witness testimony about Oval Office meetings.

Prosecutors said Tuesday they believed those arguments were “without merit,” but noted they were not opposed to adjourning sentencing while the judge considers the case.

Trump was convicted on May 30 of 34 counts of falsifying business records stemming from what prosecutors said was an attempt to conceal a $130,000 cash payment to porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election.

Daniels claims she had sex with Trump in 2006 after meeting him at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe. Trump has repeatedly denied the claim, saying during his June 27 debate with President Joe Biden, “I did not have sex with a porn star.”

Prosecutors said Daniels’ payment was part of a larger scheme to buy the silence of people who might have publicly revealed embarrassing stories during the campaign that he had extramarital sex. Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels and was later reimbursed by Trump, whose firm recorded the reimbursements as legal fees.

Falsifying business records carries a possible sentence of up to four years in prison. Other possible penalties include probation, a fine or parole, which would require Trump to stay out of trouble to avoid further punishment. Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime.

Trump will have to be present in Merchan's Manhattan courtroom during his sentencing.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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