Judge Juan Manuel Merchan agreed to a 30-day postponement and scheduled a hearing for March 25 to address questions about the evidence dump. The trial had been scheduled to start on March 25. It is among four criminal indictments against Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nomine...
Judge Juan Merchan presided over theconvictions last year of two Trump Organization companies, and a guilty plea by former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, one of Trump's most trusted advisers. Merchan is also overseeing the ongoing criminal proceedings involving Steve Bannon, Trump's fo...
15, 2024, Donald Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche, left, speaks to Judge Juan Manuel Merchan regarding a trial date delay as Trump, seated center, watches. Trump’s New York hush-money case will start March 25, 2024, the first of his criminal trials. (Elizabeth Williams via AP) Trump’s...
Manhattan Judge Juan Manuel Merchan agreed to a 30-day delay starting Friday and scheduled a hearing for March 25 after Trump’s lawyers complained that they only recently started receiving more than 100,000 pages of documents from a previous federal investigation into the matter. The trial had...
In asking Chutkan to step aside, the Trump legal team is relying on a familiar playbook. He tried unsuccessfully to get the judge removed from the hush-money case against him in New York state court, with his lawyers claiming that Judge Juan Manuel Merchan i...