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As a result of the Judge's determination, no motion is pending in the above title at the Court of Appeals,
Judge Merchan has indicated he is inclined to sentence President-Elect Trump to an unconditional discharge, meaning there will be no further sanctions, supervision or jail time,
The judge timed the sentencing so that it would be before the inauguration, as it would have raised issues if Trump were the sitting president,
This sentence, together with the entire proceeding, has many unique characteristics. It is unusual to see an unconditional discharge after a felony conviction. But in this case, the conviction may be more significant than any possible punishment,
Defendant now asks this court to take the extraordinary step of intervening in a pending state criminal trial to prevent the scheduled sentencing from taking place – before final judgment has been entered by the trial court, and before any direct appellate review of defendant’s conviction. There is no basis for such intervention,
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office wrote This extraordinary immunity claim is unsupported by any decision from any court,
There is a compelling public interest in proceeding to sentencing,
Manhattan prosecutors wrote The President-elect is, by definition, not yet the President,
Indeed, if defendant is ever to be sentenced in this proceeding, the least burdensome time to do so is now, before his inauguration on January 20, 2025,
The particular immunity-based arguments that defendant has actually raised also do not support any automatic stay. And no discretionary stay of the January 10 sentencing is warranted either."
In the 19-page letter, Wu wrote Rarely if ever has the court confronted a free-speech case that matters to so many people,
lawyers for the users and content creators wrote President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns expressed by the Government — concerns which President Trump himself has acknowledged,
D. John Sauer, Trump’s choice to be his administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, wrote in a legal brief filed with the court
