In their Thursday response to the defense’s Court of Appeals filing, Manhattan prosecutors claim Trump counsel is relying on federal procedure and federal cases that do not apply in a New York state criminal proceeding in their attempts to assert sentencing is precluded by presidential immunity.

Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in his criminal hush money case and stop his sentencing from going ahead on Friday. The eleventh-hour request to the nation’s high court came a day after Trump’s attorney,

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche argued that his client is already protected by presidential immunity and that the judge should block his sentencing on state felony charges.

A deputy clerk for Judge Jenny Rivera wrote in a two-sentence letter to Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, that the judge declined to intervene. Trump was convicted last year on 34 fel

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche argued that his client is already protected by presidential immunity and that the judge should block his sentencing on state felony charges.

At the core of Blanche’s argument lay two points: that the Supreme Court had ruled that Trump was immune over the summer, and that holding sentencing on Friday would unduly inco

A New York judge on Monday denied President-elect Donald Trump's request to delay a sentencing hearing in his New York criminal case scheduled for Friday, just 10 days before his inauguration.