President-elect Donald Trump has filed an appeal asking that any sentencing in the hush money case should be stopped.
Trump, 78, has filed 502-page lawsuit with the First Judicial Department appeals court to stop the Jan. 10 sentencing hearing from moving ahead, the New York Post reported.
Trump was convicted of 34 felonies related to hush-money payments his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, made Stormy Daniels, a porn star, leading up to 2016 election, CBS News reported.
Trump is set to be inaugurated to his second term in 10 days.
Previously, Judge Juan Merchan rejected Trump's effort to postpone the sentencing hearing on immunity grounds, the New York Post reported. The sentencing hearing was planning to move forward on Friday.
"This court finds that neither the vacatur of the jury's verdicts nor dismissal of the indictment are required by the Presidential immunity doctrine, the Presidential Transition Act or the Supremacy Clause," Merchan wrote in a decision last week, CBS reported. Merchan also indicated in that ruling that his sentence would not include incarceration.
In Trump's latest legal challenge states "Justice Merchan's erroneous decisions threaten the institution of the Presidency and run squarely against established precedent disallowing any criminal process against a President-Elect, as well as prohibiting the use of evidence of a President's official acts against him in a criminal proceeding," according to ABC News.
"President Trump brings this Article 78 proceeding to redress the serious and continuing infringement on his Presidential immunity from criminal process that he holds as the 45th and soon-to-be 47th President of the United States of America," ABC News reported the filing states in asking that the sentencing be stopped and the conviction dismissed.
