In his Monday ruling, Justice Juan Merchan rejected a request from Trump's lawyers to delay the sentencing while they appealed two of the judge's previous rulings upholding the Manhattan jury's May guilty verdict on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. T...
The incoming president sought an emergency reprieve from the nation's highest court after the New York judge who oversaw Trump's trial on Jan. 3 sent the president-elect hurtling toward the long-delayed sentencing. New York Justice Juan Merchan rejected Trump's latest motions to dismiss the c...
Editor's note: Justice Juan Merchanagreed to delay sentencinguntil Sept. 18. The original story appears below: Donald Trump is trying to leverage aSupreme Court decisionholding that presidents are immune from federal prosecution for official actions to overturn his conviction in a New York State ...
And Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is ... set to hit Broadway? Yes on both strange-sounding counts, as I’ll explain. We’re also awaiting Judge Juan Merchan’s ruling on President-elect Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss the New York hush money case, while the ...
They argued that Trump, as president-elect, is immune from criminal prosecution. New York trial court Judge Juan Merchan had rejected that claim. The lawyers also argued that the Manhattan D.A.'s Office violated Trump's immunity privileges by using evidence of his official presidential acts dur...
Merchan wrote that the interests of justice would only be served by “bringing finality to this matter” through sentencing. He suggested the “most viable” sentence would be what’s known as an unconditional discharge — closing the case without jail...
Less than 48 hours after the Supreme Court handed down their decision, Judge Juan Merchan slammed the brakes, delaying the sentencing until September. But it will only move forward “if such is still necessary,” Merchan cautioned in Tuesday’s announcement. Close The latest in politics ...
Trump has asked theSupreme Courtto call off Friday’ssentencing. His lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan. Merchan presided over Trump’s trial and conviction last ...
Trump's attorneys have also asked Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the trial, to terminate the gag order because the trial is over. The Manhattan District Attorney's office, however, urged Merchan to keep the restrictions in place, at least until after a sentencing hearing is held and...
The trial judge in New York, Juan Merchan, has indicated that he does not intend to sentence Trump to jail time, and he is allowing Trump to appear by video at Friday’s sentencing hearing. But Trump sought to have the sentencing put off. He argued that as the president-elect, ...