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Article III Project spokesman Mike Davis says now it's time for the U.S. Supreme Court to "put on big-boy pants and end" the election interference that has occurred through a lawfare case against President-elect Donald Trump in the courtroom of New York judge Juan Merchan.
Merchan supervised the trial on charges created by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who took business reporting misdemeanors and claimed they were felonies because they were in pursuit of another unidentified crime.
A leftist jury in Manhattan, a district that voted overwhelmingly against Trump, convicted him on 34 counts and Merchan has scheduled sentencing for Friday.
Trump now has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to delay that.
Davis said, "The American people have heard all the bogus allegations and so-called evidence against President Trump. And they rendered their verdict on November 5th. It's time for the Supreme Court of the United States to put on its big-boy pants and end the Biden Democrats' unprecedented, republic-ending lawfare and election interference.
"We cannot allow America to devolve into a highly dangerous place where third-world prosecutors and judges in partisan hellholes can sentence the president-elect for non-crimes."
The Washington Examiner reported Trump's appeal seeks a postponment of the sentencing.
"President Trump's legal team filed an emergency petition with the United States Supreme Court, asking the Court to correct the unjust actions by New York courts and stop the unlawful sentencing in the Manhattan D.A.'s Witch Hunt," Trump spokesman and incoming White House communications director Steven Cheung said.
Trump's legal team explains the sentencing at this time would disrupt his presidential transition and preparations for his Jan. 20 inauguration. Also being questioned is the validity of the guilty verdict itself.
Trump's attorneys said, as president-elect, he should be immune from criminal proceedings, the report said.
"Forcing President Trump to prepare for a criminal sentencing in a felony case while he is preparing to lead the free world as President of the United States in less than two weeks imposes an intolerable, unconstitutional burden on him that undermines these vital national interests," Trump's team argued.
The Supreme Court has ordered New York officials to respond by Thursday.
WND has reported the case is being handled by a "deeply conflicted" Merchan.
The legacy media has styled the case the "hush money" case essentially because Trump's organization labeled his payments to his then-lawyer as legal fees when some of the money went to a woman to keep quiet about an alleged affair, which both alleged participants have denied happened.
Cheung said when Merchan scheduled his sentencing, "Today's order by the deeply conflicted, Acting Justice Merchan in the Manhattan DA Witch Hunt is a direct violation of the Supreme Court's Immunity decision and other longstanding jurisprudence. This lawless case should have never been brought and the Constitution demands that it be immediately dismissed. President Trump must be allowed to continue the Presidential Transition process and to execute the vital duties of the presidency, unobstructed by the remains of this or any remnants of the Witch Hunts. There should be no sentencing, and President Trump will continue fighting against these hoaxes until they are all dead."
