{"id":9137,"date":"2025-01-07T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2025-01-07T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:16:35","slug":"hush-money-judge-refuses-to-delay-trumps-criminal-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=9137","title":{"rendered":"Hush money judge refuses to delay Trump\u2019s criminal sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20250107151449.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20250107151449.jpg 320w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20250107151449-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York judge who oversaw President-elect Trump\u2019s criminal trial this spring declined his request to pause Friday\u2019s sentencing, setting up a last-minute appellate battle as he seeks to stave off the proceeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump could still attempt to have an appeals court step in as his attorneys argue Judge Juan Merchan was wrong to reject Trump\u2019s presidential immunity claims and uphold the conviction in his hush money criminal case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis Court has considered Defendant\u2019s arguments in support of his motion and finds that they are for the most part, a repetition of the arguments he has raised numerous times in the past,\u201d Merchan wrote in Monday\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels so she would keep an alleged affair, which he denies, secret ahead of the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merchan, who oversees the trial proceedings, had agreed to Trump\u2019s requests to delay his sentencing until after the election. The judge rescheduled it for Friday after rejecting Trump\u2019s efforts to toss the case over his separate immunity claims as a former president and president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Merchan said he is inclined to impose no jail time or punishment, the trajectory would keep Trump\u2019s criminal conviction intact and make him the first felon to assume the presidency on Inauguration Day, now just two weeks away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s attorneys are seeking to block that scenario, demanding the sentencing be put on hold as they appeal Merchan\u2019s recent rulings. Trump filed the first of two expected appeals Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJustice Merchan is without authority under the law to proceed to sentencing while President Trump exercises his federal constitutional right to challenge these rulings, and the erroneous jury verdict in the underlying criminal case must be vacated and the charges against President Trump must be dismissed with prejudice, without further delay,\u201d Trump\u2019s attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s (D) office pushed back, noting in court filings Monday that Trump had asked for the delays and that wrapping up the case now with a sentencing the president-elect wouldn\u2019t be required to attend in person wouldn\u2019t interfere with his presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no risk here of an \u2018extended proceeding\u2019 that impairs the discharge of defendant\u2019s official duties \u2014 duties he does not possess before January 20, 2025 in any event,\u201d prosecutors wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s ask for a delay comes as only days remain until he retakes the White House. Legal experts largely agree that, at minimum, the proceedings can\u2019t move forward after the inauguration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York judge who oversaw President-elect Trump\u2019s criminal trial this spring declined his request to pause Friday\u2019s sentencing, setting up a last-minute appellate battle as he seeks to stave off the proceeding. 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