The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss Missouri’s petition that seeks to prevent former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in September after his criminal conviction.
Weeks after a Manhattan jury in late May found the 45th president guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, submitted a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. He argued that the conviction and sentencing would violate the rights of voters in his state.
Specifically, he asked the high court to grant his office permission to file a complaint against the state of New York to put a pause on the former president’s sentencing date in the criminal case, which a judge set for September, as well as lifting a gag order that prohibits the former president from speaking about certain individuals connected to the case….
