Appeals court refuses to pause Trump’s Georgia case so defense lawyer can take ‘fully paid for and non-refundable’ international 70th birthday trip with his wife of 45 years

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Donald Trump speaks at the annual Road to Majority conference in Washington, DC, June 22, 2024. (Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP)

An appeals court in New York has rejected Donald Trump’s latest bid to postpone this Friday’s sentencing hearing in his criminal hush-money case, marking the latest blow in the president-elect’s fight to have the case against him dismissed before he takes office later this month.

“After consideration of the papers submitted and the extensive oral argument, movant’s application for an interim stay is denied,” New York First Department Court of Appeals Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer wrote in a brief order following an emergency hearing on Tuesday.

The hearing was held after Trump on Monday asked Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to delay the sentencing hearing while he sought reversal of the judge’s decision not to throw out the case based on landmark Supreme Court jurisprudence granting sitting presidents broad immunity from prosecution for official acts taken while in office.

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