Judge Juan Merchan gets the last word, but little else.
On January 3, New York Judge Juan Merchan rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s request that his “hush money” convictions be vacated based on the US Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision in Trump v. United States. Merchan has scheduled a “sentencing” of Donald Trump for January 10, in which no incarceration will be imposed, a presumably symbolic pre-inaugural trial formality.
Donald Trump Is no Ordinary Felon
Sensationalist histrionics that Donald Trump is “a convicted felon” arise solely from the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 Presidential election advanced by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Stitched tenuously together to avoid statutes of limitation, amplify the charges against Trump to…
