几小时后。最高法院发布了标志性裁定据消息人士透露,唐纳德特朗普总统因采取行动推翻2020年选举结果而享有一些总统豁免权,周一,特朗普试图在他的纽约刑事秘密资金案中推翻对他的定罪。
特朗普的律师说,应该推翻"封口费"的判决,因为陪审团在审判中看到了证据,他们认为应该受到总统豁免权的保护,这是根据美国广播公司(ABC)新闻的消息来源所描述的。
辩方寻求更多的时间来提出他们的论点--这一举动可能会推迟特朗普的判决,目前定于7月11日。
曼哈顿地区检察官办公室和特朗普法律团队的代表拒绝对ABC新闻发表评论。
五月陪审团花了不到十个小时被控34项重罪伪造与支付给成年女演员雷丝丹尼尔斯的封口费有关的商业记录,以增加他在2016年总统选举中的机会。
检察官说,特朗普当时的律师迈克尔·科恩把丹尼尔斯的13万美元和特朗普作为日常法律费用每月分期偿还他。
特朗普的辩护小组此前援引了总统豁免权论点,试图限制证据并拖延审判,但没有成功。
今年3月,辩护律师试图排除披露特朗普向科恩报销的一份政府道德操守表格,以及检察官指控的2018年一系列推文,这是对科恩的"压力运动"的一部分。
"根据这些适当的标准,特朗普总统的社交媒体帖子和公开声明----虽然是总统,也是从背景来看----属于其总统职责范围之外的范围,在公众关注的问题上与公众沟通是其核心内容,"特朗普的律师在3月份的动议中写道,法官在审判前予以驳回。
Following Supreme Court ruling, Trump moves to have NY hush money conviction tossed: Sources
Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court issued itslandmark rulingthat President Donald Trump has some presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken to overturn results of the 2020 election, Trump on Monday sought to have his conviction thrown out in his New York criminal hush money case, according to sources.
Trump's lawyers said the hush money verdict should be tossed because the jury saw evidence during trial that they believe should have been protected by presidential immunity, according to a letter to Judge Juan Merchan that was described by sources to ABC News.
The defense sought additional time to make their argument -- a move that could delay Trump's sentencing, which is currently scheduled for July 11.
The Manhattan district attorney's office and a representative from Trump's legal team declined to comment to ABC News.
A jury in May took less than ten hours toconvict Trump of 34 felony countsof falsifying business records related to a hush payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in an effort to boost his chances in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump's then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, wired Daniels $130,000 and Trump reimbursed him in monthly installments disguised as routine legal expenses, prosecutors said.
Trump's defense team previously invoked a presidential immunity argument in an unsuccessful effort to limit evidence and delay the trial.
In March, defense lawyers sought to exclude a government ethics form that disclosed Trump's reimbursement to Cohen, as well as a series of tweets from 2018 that prosecutors alleged were part of a "pressure campaign" against Cohen.
"Under these appropriate standards, President Trump's social media posts and public statements -- while acting as President and viewed in context -- fell within the outer perimeter of his Presidential duty, to which communicating with the public on matters of public concern was central," Trump's lawyers wrote in the March motion that the judge rejected ahead of the trial.
