Joyce Vance discusses Merchan citing a recent report from Chief Justice John Roberts while announcing Trump's sentencing date.

A New York judge on Monday denied a request ... numerous times in the past,” wrote Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan as he rejected defense requests for a stay of the proceeding ...

New York Judge Juan Merchan gave Americans an unusual level of access Friday ... which he now has 30 days to do. In addressing the court, Trump appeared to suggest the case was politically motivated. ...

That was the upshot of New York Justice Juan Merchan’s deft handling, with a critical assist from the U.S. Supreme Court, of Trump’s conviction on cover-up charges tied to hush-money payments ...

One judge of the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order declining to grant a hearing to Trump's legal team. In a filing to the top New York court, Trump’s attorneys had said Merchan and ...

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President-elect Trump was sentenced Friday after being found guilty on charges of falsifying business records stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s yearslong investigation.

A New York judge upheld a jury ... of the hush money case can withstand the Supreme Court’s new test for presidential immunity. Judge Juan Merchan’s decision comes on the heels of Trump ...

Trump Asks the Supreme Court to Block Sentencing in His Hush ... Trump's lawyers turned to the nation's highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge ...

Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited ...