Supreme Court Spurns Bid To Block Trump Sen­tenc­ing And Gag Order In Hush-Mon­ey Case

The Supreme Court reject­ed on Mon­day an effort to freeze sen­tenc­ing and a gag order in Man­hat­tan Dis­trict Attor­ney Alvin Bragg’s hush-mon­ey case against Don­ald Trump until after the Novem­ber elec­tion in which the for­mer pres­i­dent is seek­ing anoth­er term in the White House.
Missouri‘s GOP attor­ney gen­er­al, Andrew Bai­ley, peti­tioned the high court in July, rais­ing con­cerns about his con­stituents not being able to par­tic­i­pate in a con­test “free from New York’s exer­cise of coer­cive pow­er lim­it­ing the abil­i­ty of Trump to cam­paign.” New York fought back.
The Supreme Court said Missouri’s bill of com­plaint was “denied” and its motion for pre­lim­i­nary relief or a stay was “dis­missed as moot.” Jus­tices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Ali­to “would grant the motion for leave to file the bill of com­plaint but would not grant oth­er relief,” the order added.
“It’s dis­ap­point­ing that the Supreme Court refused to exer­cise its con­sti­tu­tion­al respon­si­bil­i­ty to resolve state v. state dis­putes,” Bai­ley said on X. H …