Left: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Monday, March 4, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell). Right: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg gestures while speaking during a news conference Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in New York (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II).
Manhattan’s top prosecutor wants to continue his prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump, a letter motion filed Tuesday says.
In the filing, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said his office opposes efforts to dismiss the hush-money conviction against the 45th and 47th president.
Bragg’s office is asking New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to quickly “set a motion schedule for Defendant’s forthcoming motion to dismiss, which the People intend to oppose.”
The letter motion previews the arguments for and against dismissing the conviction as a knockdown, drag-out battle between “competing constitutional interests” and professes a need to preserve “the integrity of the criminal justice system.”
Keen to the concept of presidential immunity, Bragg says the doctrine is not — and cannot be — a method used to “forever thwart the public’s interest in enforcing its criminal laws.”
This is a developing story.
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