Trump seeks to set aside New York hush money verdict
Associated PressUpdate: Former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until at least Sept. 18. NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for next week. The letter to Judge Juan M. Merchan cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling earlier Monday on presidential immunity and asked the judge to delay Trump’s sentencing while he weighs the high court’s decision and how it could influence the New York case, according to the letter obtained by The Associated Press. Judge delays Trump’s hush money sentencing until at least September after high court immunity ruling AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on Donald Trump’s hush money sentencing delay and what it means for his guilty verdict. In denying Trump’s bid to move the trial from New York state court to federal court last year, a federal judge found that the allegations at the center of the case pertained to Trump’s personal life and do not “reflect in any way the color of the President’s official duties.” AP AUDIO: Trump seeks to set aside his New York hush money guilty verdict after Supreme Court immunity ruling AP correspondent Jennifer King reports Donald Trump’s attorneys want to leverage the recent Supreme Court ruling to negate his conviction in New York.