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FILE — Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Mich., Feb. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

The New York City judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case rejected a last-ditch bid by the defense to adjourn the upcoming trial until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the “scope of the presidential immunity doctrine.”

In a six-page ruling late Wednesday, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan M. Merchan said he doubted the “sincerity and actual purpose” of the attempt to pause the start of the trial past this summer.

In deciding against the defense delay effort, the judge found that Trump had simply waited too long to claim presidential immunity.

“Defendant chose not to raise the defense of presidential immunity until well past the 45 days provided by statute,” the order reads. “He also did not raise it in his omnibus motion, in his motions in limine or in his response to the People’s motions in limine. Defendant’s decision is unjustifiable and renders this motion untimely.”

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