Former President Donald Trump wants his sentencing in the Hush Money case to take place after the November election.
Trumpās attorneys call the Sept. 18 sentencing date nothing more thanānaked election-interference objectives,ā per ABC News.
Sentencing was first scheduled for July 11, but was delayed after the Supreme Courtās decision on presidential immunity.
Judge Juan Merchan said a ruling on Trumpās immunity claim will be handed down Sept. 16. Sentencing would be imposed two days later.
āThat timing illustrates just how unreasonable it is to have the potential for only a single day between a decision on first-impression Presidential immunity issues and an unprecedented and unwarranted sentencing,ā Trumpās lawyers wrote to Merchan Thursday.
Trumpās lawyers also questioned if sentencing should be held after the early voting has started.
āFinally, setting aside naked election-interference objectives, there is no valid countervailing reason for the Court to keep the current sentencing date on the calendar. There is no basis for continuing to rush,ā Trumpās lawyers wrote.
This latest request come a day after Merchan denied for the third time Trumpās ask for the judge to step down from the case.
Merchan criticized Trumpās lawyers for raising āinaccurate and unsubstantiated claimsā that Merchan should recuse himself due to an alleged conflict of interest involving his daughter and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trumpās lawyers continued that argument in the letter asking a delayed sentencing.
Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
It involved a hush payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence on a sexual encounter the allegedly had and which Trump denies.