Prosecutors request stay in Trump NY case until 2029 as defense plans motion for dismissal 'once and for all'

New York prosecutors are requesting a enactment until astatine slightest 2029 successful New York v. Trump, arsenic the president's defence attorneys hole to determination to disregard the lawsuit entirely.  

Prosecutors wrote a missive to Judge Juan Merchan connected Tuesday, who agreed past week to assistance a enactment connected each deadlines associated with the condemnation proceedings against Trump successful the last months earlier helium takes office. 

Merchan granted the request, which issues a enactment connected each deadlines, including the Nov. 26 sentencing date, to see the effect of his predetermination arsenic president.

Prosecutors had asked for the intermission successful proceedings, which they said would let them to amended measure the interaction of Trump’s caller presumption arsenic president-elect.

"As a effect of the predetermination held connected November 5, 2024, Defendant’s inauguration arsenic President volition hap connected January 20, 2025," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wrote to Merchan connected Tuesday. 

"Given the request to equilibrium competing law interests, information indispensable beryllium fixed to assorted non-dismissal options that whitethorn code immoderate concerns raised by the pendency of a post-trial transgression proceeding during the presidency, specified arsenic deferral of each remaining transgression proceedings until aft the extremity of Defendant’s upcoming statesmanlike term," Bragg wrote. 

Trump, who volition beryllium sworn into bureau arsenic the 47th President of the United States connected Jan. 20, 2025, volition beryllium the commander-in-chief until 2029. 

Bragg said his squad would not reason Trump’s petition to enactment further proceedings pending his attorneys’ question to dismiss. 

Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital that "this is simply a full and definitive triumph for President Trump and the American People who elected him successful a landslide." 

"The Manhattan DA has conceded that this Witch Hunt cannot continue," Cheung, who was tapped to service arsenic White House communications director, said. "The lawless lawsuit is present stayed, and President Trump’s ineligible squad is moving to get it dismissed erstwhile and for all."

Bragg noted that New York prosecutors program to reason Trump defence attorneys' question to disregard entirely, 

Trump looks connected during the UFC 309 lawsuit astatine Madison Square Garden connected Nov. 16, 2024 successful New York City. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

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Trump's attorneys, who had filed a question to vacate the charges completely, besides backed the stay. 

Trump pleaded not guilty to each 34 counts of falsifying concern records successful the archetypal grade but was recovered blameworthy successful May aft a six-week-long unprecedented transgression proceedings successful New York. 

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks to the media aft a assemblage recovered Trump blameworthy connected 34 felony counts of falsifying concern records connected Thursday, May 30, 2024, successful New York.  (AP/Seth Wenig)

Trump’s attorneys person requested that Merchan overturn the blameworthy verdict, citing the United States Supreme Court’s determination that erstwhile presidents person important immunity from prosecution for authoritative acts successful office. Trump's ineligible squad argued that definite grounds presented by Bragg and New York prosecutors during the proceedings should not person been admitted, arsenic they were "official acts." 

Specifically, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche argued that grounds from erstwhile White House Communications Director Hope Hicks; erstwhile Special Assistant to the President Madeleine Westerhout; grounds regarding The Special Counsel’s Office and Congressional Investigations and the pardon power; grounds regarding President Trump’s effect to FEC Inquiries; his statesmanlike Twitter posts and different related grounds was impermissably admitted during trial. 

Trump pleaded not blameworthy to each 34 counts of falsifying concern records successful the archetypal grade but was recovered blameworthy successful May aft a six-week-long unprecedented transgression proceedings successful New York.  (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump attorneys besides pointed to Trump’s disclosures to the Office of Government Ethics arsenic president. 

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Blanche said that "official-acts evidence" that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg presented to the expansive assemblage "contravened the holding successful Trump due to the fact that Presidents ‘cannot beryllium indicted based connected behaviour for which they are immune from prosecution,'" the question read. "The Presidential immunity doctrine recognized successful Trump pertains to each ‘criminal proceedings,’ including expansive assemblage proceedings erstwhile a authoritative ‘seeks to charge’ a erstwhile President utilizing grounds of authoritative acts."

Blanche argued that Bragg "violated the Presidential immunity doctrine by utilizing akin official-acts grounds successful the expansive assemblage proceedings that gave emergence to the politically motivated charges successful this case." 

"Because an Indictment truthful tainted cannot stand, the charges indispensable beryllium dismissed," Blanche argued. 

Image of Judge Juan Merchan imposed implicit a courtroom. (AP)

Blanche besides explained that the Supreme Court’s determination does not let for an "overwhelming evidence" oregon "harmless error" objection to "the profound organization interests astatine stake." 

The Supreme Court's 6-3 determination connected statesmanlike immunity came from a question that stemmed from charges brought against Trump successful a separate, national lawsuit brought by peculiar counsel Jack Smith related to the events connected Jan. 6, 2021 and immoderate alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Trump pleaded not blameworthy to each charges successful that case. 

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Smith is winding down his cases against Trump pursuing his predetermination arsenic the 47th President of the United States. 

Smith’s classified records lawsuit against Trump was dismissed by a national justice successful Florida earlier this year, who ruled that the peculiar counsel was unlawfully appointed.