Supreme Court declines to bail Donald Trump out, okays sentencing in his criminal trial
Donald Trump’s sentencing hearing in his New York criminal trial is set for next month. Given that he’s been convicted on thirty-four felonies, he could be looking at a prison sentence. But what if the U.S. Supreme Court intervened and delayed the hearing? Now it turns out that’s not going to happen.
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal today that was aimed at delaying Trump’s sentencing hearing. This means that the sentencing hearing will indeed happen on September 18th as scheduled.
No one knows for sure what Judge Juan Merchan will do in terms of sentencing. If he does sentence Trump to prison, he may not order him to begin serving his sentence immediately. But we do know that Trump is now set to come out of his September 18th hearing with a felony conviction punishment of some kind hanging around his neck, which should serve to further hamper his already fading political viability.
