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Lawyers for former President Trump filed a motion Monday to adjourn the trial stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s charges related to hush money payments until after the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity.
The trial in New York City is set to begin on March 25 with jury selection, but the former president and 2024 GOP presumptive nominee’s attorneys are requesting the trial be put on hold.
“The Court should adjourn the trial pending Supreme Court review of the scope of the presidential immunity doctrine in Trump v. United States, which is scheduled to be argued before the Supreme Court on April 25, 2024,” the motion states, adding that it should also be adjourned “following an evidentiary hearing outside the presence of the jury, preclude evidence of President Trump’s official acts at trial based on presidential immunity.”
Judge Juan Merchan had set the date for jury selection as March 25 and announced that the trial is expected to last six weeks.
Last month, Merchan had denied a request to have the case dismissed entirely.
The case is over alleged hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The report notes that federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York had already opted out of charging Trump over the allegations in 2019, and the Federal Election Commission also tossed its investigation into the matter in 2021.
Trump lawyers motion to adjourn Manhattan DA trial until after Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity https://t.co/9zFib86oqC
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