On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers urged the U.S. Supreme Court to block his sentencing in New York for falsifying business records to conceal his 2016 hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Todd Blanche, whom Trump plans to appoint as his deputy attorney general, and D. John Sauer, Trump's pick for solicitor general, warned that "forcing President Trump to prepare for a criminal sentencing in a felony case while he is preparing to lead the free world as President of the United States in less than two weeks imposes an intolerable, unconstitutional burden on him" that undermines "national security and vital interests."
Most of the justices were unimpressed by that argument. In an unsigned order issued on Thursday evening, they declined to intervene in the New York case, saying "the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect's responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court's stated intent to impose a sentence of 'unconditional discharge' after a brief virtual hearing."
