The Supreme Court ruled against President-elect Donald Trump’s motion to delay the sentencing in his New York business records case because it does not interfere with state cases until they are made final, retired Judge Andrew Napolitano told Newsmax on Friday.
“They don’t want to be in the business of micromanaging a state case,” the senior judicial analyst told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “There’s a federal statute called the Anti-Injunction Act, which prevents federal courts from interfering with state prosecutions.”
The Supreme Court split by 5-4 against Trump, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett ruling on the side of the three liberal justices in a decision coming a day after New York’s highest court also would not delay Trump’s sentencing, scheduled for Friday.
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