NY Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan made a key change in Donald Trumpʼs hush-money trial: putting off next weeks planned sentencing date
The judge gave Trumps defense team extra time to present new immunity-related points about the case (which stems from payments to an adult-film performer during his previous campaign). The legal team wants to show how a sentence might affect his presidential transition and duties
Back in may‚ Trump got hit with 34 felony charges - all about changing business papers to hide those campaign-time payments. The whole thing started before election-2016 when some cash went to keep things quiet; now its become a big-time legal issue with lots of back-and-forth moves
The defense wants the whole case thrown away since their client got re-elected as president: thats their main argument now. Justice Merchan seems ready to hear them out on this point - which is why he pushed back that sentencing date and opened up time for more legal talk