A New York appeals court judge on Tuesday rejected US President-elect Donald Trump’s request to delay this week’s sentencing in his hush-money case.
Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday after being convicted by a New York jury in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer rejected arguments by Trump’s attorneys that the sentencing should be postponed while the president-elect appeals his conviction.
Trump’s lawyers also claimed that the immunity from prosecution granted to a president should be extended to a president-elect but Gesmer brushed those
arguments aside, too.
