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- Former President Donald Trump is trying to indefinitely delay sentencing in his hush-money case.
- On Thursday, the former president filed a request to move the case to federal court.
- The effort could eventually lead to a US Supreme Court challenge of the case on immunity grounds.
Former President Donald Trump is trying to move his hush-money case to federal court in an attempt to get his guilty conviction tossed and delay sentencing in the case.
On Thursday evening, Trump’s attorneys requested that the US District Court in Manhattan intervene in the matter, arguing that the Manhattan State Court that tried the case violated his constitutional rights.
Trump’s attorneys cited the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity; if the case is taken up by federal court, it could be on the path to the US’s top court.
Representatives for Trump and the US District Court did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
In May, a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 election.
Trump is set to be sentenced in the case on September 18, but his Thursday legal request, if granted, would delay that sentencing.
Trump’s lawyers filed the Thursday request to Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who, earlier this year, rejected Trump’s previous motion to move the case to federal court.
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