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 ...
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 ...
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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...
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, ...
the center of the case, and Trump's social media posts from his official Twitter account in 2018 related to an alleged "pressure campaign" against his former lawyer Michael Cohen -- was admitted into evidence during the trial after Judge Juan Merchan rejected the immunity ...
Within hours of the Supreme Court decision, Trump’s lawyers told Judge Juan Merchan that Trump’s conviction should be set aside. The Supreme Court’s decisionat first blush appears not to be relevant to the New York case. After all, the efforts to cover-up allegations of infidel...
from Trump-related cases. Meanwhile, some Republicans have called for New York Judge Juan Merchan to recuse himself from Trump’s hush-money trial because he’s given small donations to Democrats and his daughter is a party consultant. He declined, in a decision backed ...
He hasvowed to appealthe conviction, and his sentencing, while initially set for July 11, wasdelayed to Sept. 18. The New York judge overseeing the case, Justice Juan Merchan,lifted partof the gag order in June, but Trump is still restricted from talking about prosecutors, court staff and...