This week, as the hush-money-to-a-porn-star criminal case against the former president advances, Trump once again read from the same script: He tried to discredit New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchanby going after the jurist’s daughter. In fact, as part of aseriesof...
Judge Juan M. Merchan’s ruling — just days before Trump’s debate Thursday with President Biden — clears the presumptive Republican nominee to again go on the attack against his former lawyer Michael Cohen, porn actor Stormy Daniels and other trial w...
balance the interests of "a jury verdict of guilt following trial that has the presumption of regularity; and the Office of the President."Trump lawyer Emil Bove followed up in his own email to Merchan, writing that a "stay, and dismissal, are necessary to avoid unconstitutional impediments t...
Judge Juan M. Merchan said that idea was “not tenable.” Related Trump is the first ex-president on criminal trial. Here’s what to know about the hush-money case.Jan. 6, classified documents, hush money: Tracking the investigations into Donald TrumpManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg ...
Judge Juan M. Merchan’s comments came as a dramatic and consequential week in the first criminal trial of a former American president drew to a close Friday. Prosecutors have been building up their case ahead of crucial testimony from Cohen, who arranged ...
In a letter Thursday to trial Judge Juan M. Merchan, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche said the prosecution filing contains “several legal and factual misrepresentations,” and asked for permission to file a 30-page response next week. The Supreme Court ruled about ...
Amid a flurry of filings in the case since Trump’selectionwin this month, it had already become clear that the Nov. 26 sentencing date wouldn’t hold. Judge Juan M. Merchan’s order Friday formalized that without setting a new one. ...
Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan deemed the former president’s request untimely, ruling that his lawyers had “myriad opportunities” to raise the immunity issue before they finally did so in a March 7 court filing. The timing of the defense filing ...
Trump’s lawyers — echoing his recent social media complaints — urged Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan to step aside from the case, alleging bias and a conflict of interest because his daughter is a Democratic political consultant. The judge rejected a similar r...
Late Show host Stephen Colbert shared the one thing that Trump and Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan have in common on Wednesday night.