The Supreme Court has shut down a long-shot push from Missouri seeking to remove a gag order in former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday shut down a long-shot push from Missouri to remove a gag order in former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York.

The Missouri attorney general went to the high court with the unusual request to sue New York after the justices granted Trump broad immunity from prosecution in a separate case filed in Washington.

The order states that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have allowed Republican Andrew Bailey to file the suit, though not grant his push to quickly lift the gag order and delay sentencing.

  • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    Pretty sure I just read the mashup of

    Court Tosses Facially Absurd Case and Baliey Kicks Off Gubernatorial Campaign

    and can file it in the portion of my memory reserved for things done solely for optics, which tends to get emptied every night.