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Edwin Meese, former U.S. attorney general under President Ronald Reagan, sided with President-elect Donald Trump in his bid to delay the sentencing in his New York hush money trial.

“Today, moreover, there are fifty states with roughly 2,300 county prosecutors, some of them quite partisan,” Meese and Steven Calabresi, co-chair of the Federalist Society, wrote in a brief. 

“This Court should not allow such a prosecutor to impair the President’s or congressionally certified President-Elect’s ability to perform his duties,” the brief continued. 

Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday, Jan. 10, at 9:30 a.m., pending a decision from the Supreme Court. He is planning to appear remotely by video.

The president-elect earlier this week requested the Supreme Court call off his sentencing.

The request by Trump and his lawyers follows a New York court’s refusal to postpone the sentencing by Juan M. Merchan, the judge who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.