MSNBC - Judge Juan Merchan was set to rule Tuesday on whether he would throw out Donald Trump’s guilty verdicts in New York. Instead, the only criminal case in which Trump has gone to trial is delayed again, and now he might not be sentenced before he takes office — or ever, if the president-elect has his way.
As with the two federal cases inevitably headed for the legal trash heap,
the reason for this latest delay is Trump’s presidential victory. But
the New York state case is in a different posture from not only the
federal cases but also the Georgia state case, raising novel questions
for what happens in the so-called hush money case in the coming weeks
and, potentially, years.
As with the two federal cases inevitably headed for the legal trash heap, the reason for this latest delay is Trump’s presidential victory. To recap the New York action, in May a trial jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, for covering up a scheme related to the 2016 presidential election. He was going to be sentenced July 11, but then the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority issued the immunity ruling July 1. Trump’s lawyers cited the ruling to argue that the verdicts should be overturned and the indictment should be dismissed, contending that evidence introduced at trial and in the grand jury ran afoul of the high court ruling. Merchan delayed the sentencing until September and then to Nov. 26 because of the election, setting Tuesday as the date on which he would decide whether to overturn the verdicts or dismiss the case.
NBC News - Special counsel Jack Smith and his team plan to resign before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a source familiar with the matter said. Smith’s office was evaluating the best path for winding down its work on the two outstanding federal criminal cases against Trump, as the Justice Department's longstanding position is that it cannot charge a sitting president with a crime.
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