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Donald Trump’s winning streak at the Supreme Court has come to an end. Today, the conservative-dominated panel announced it won’t block the president-elect’s sentencing in his New York criminal trial. Trump was convicted in his hush-money case in May. He was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business …

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump on the phone about an ex-law clerk a day before Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case. Alito confirmed the news to ABC News on Wednesday. “William Levi, one of …

Manhattan prosecutors are urging Judge Juan Merchan not to vacate Donald Trump’s felony conviction on charges of falsifying business records related to a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Merchan is currently weighing a bid from Trump’s legal team to have the case tossed out on grounds …

Convicted felon and President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing has been indefinitely postponed, New York Judge Juan Merchan ruled on Friday. Trump was scheduled to be sentenced over his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records next week, but his victory in this month’s election has thrown several wrenches into …

Sentencing for Donald Trump’s conviction on falsification of business records related to a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels has been postponed until after the election. In a Friday decision, Judge Juan Merchan ruled that “sentencing on this matter, if necessary, is adjourned to November 26, 2024, at 10 …

Hours after the Supreme Court ruled Monday that presidents have “absolute” immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office, Donald Trump moved to have his hush money conviction in New York tossed. According to CNN, in a letter to the judge overseeing the case, the former president’slegal team …

Judge Juan Merchan has agreed to postpone the sentencing of former President Donald Trump to September 18, following a Supreme Court decision finding that presidents are entitled to immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office. White the court’s decision will most directly affect the Department of Justice’s …

In the time since his historic criminal conviction in his New York hush-money trial, Donald Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, venting in conversations and phone calls with prominent allies — including some members of Congress — that they are not moving swiftly enough …

Sometimes the law is complex and esoteric; other times it’s incredibly intuitive. The principles that govern sentencing are the latter. They are a distillation of commonly shared values in personal morality and public policy. As a former prosecutor and current defense attorney who has argued hundreds of sentencings, I have …

Donald Trump may be the first American president convicted of a felony, but he has no plans to let his conviction stand — and he’s enlisting congressional Republicans to help him undermine the case. According to a report from Politico, shortly after his May 31 conviction, an enraged Trump called …