Trump asks NYC judge to pause Alvin Bragg's 'falsified' docs case until SCOTUS ruling on immunity

2024 GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump is seeking to delay the falsified business records case brought forth by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims in a separate criminal case brought forth by special counsel Jack Smith.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Trump’s lawyers asked Judge Juan Manuel Merchan on Monday to adjourn the trial indefinitely until the argument in the January 6 case is resolved.  

Trump has said that he is immune from prosecution for official acts that he did while in office, and his lawyers argue that some of the evidence in the business documents case overlap with his time in the White House, and therefore constitute official acts.

Trump’s lawyers say part of the evidence Manhattan prosecutors plan to introduce in the trial includes a social media post made in 2018 regarding money paid to lawyer Michael Cohen, which they say constituted official acts.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the arguments on presidential immunity on April 25, one month after the Bragg case is scheduled to begin in New York City.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records. Bragg raised the crimes from misdemeanors to felonies to bring the charges past the statute of limitations, and has not specified what the felony crime is.