LIVE: Trump Sentenced To Unconditional Discharge in New York Hush Money Case | Judge Merchan | N18G
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- USA LIVE: Donald Trump Sentencing in New York Hush Money Criminal Case | Judge Juan Merchan | USA Today | CNBC TV18
Powers of the presidency are not able to "erase a jury verdict," Merchan says
Judge Juan Merchan says he need not repeat the aggrevating factors that he has already articulated in his recent orders.
“However the considerable, indeed extraordinary legal protections afforded the office of the chief executive is a factor that overrides all others,” he says.
“They do not reduce the seriousness of the crime or justify its commission in any way,” Merchan says of the legal protections for the office of the presidency.
Live outside a New York court for the sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump in his hush money case. Trump's lawyers have turned to the Supreme Court asking it to call off the sentencing, after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump's trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has denied wrongdoing
The high court on Thursday rejected Trump’s emergency request to delay the proceeding, setting the stage for him to be sentenced just days before he is inaugurated on January 20 for a second term.
Four conservative justices - Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh - said they would have granted Trump’s request. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three liberals to side against Trump.
Judge Juan Merchan, the New York judge who oversaw Trump’s trial, had ordered sentencing in the case for Friday morning but has signaled that Trump will face neither penalties nor prison time.
The sentencing hearing is scheduled for Friday at 9:30 a.m. Trump will appear virtually, according to a person familiar with the plans, joining the proceedings from Mar-a-Lago.
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