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Judge delays ruling on whether to scrap Trump's conviction in hush money case
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A judge postponed a decision on whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction in his hush money case, after his lawyers called for freezing and ultimately dismissing the case so he can run the country.
New York Judge Juan M. Merchan had been set to rule Tuesday on their earlier request to throw out his conviction because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this summer on presidential immunity. Instead, he told Trump's lawyers Tuesday he'd delay the ruling until Nov. 19.
According to emails filed in court, Trump lawyer Emil Bove asked for the delay over the weekend, arguing that putting the case on hold — and then ending it altogether — is “necessary to avoid unconstitutional impediments to President Trump's ability to govern.”
Prosecutors agreed to the delay.
Trump won back the White House a week ago but the legal question concerns the Republican's status as a past president, not an impending one.
A jury convicted Trump in May of falsifying business re
MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/judge-to-rule-trump-hush-money-case/507-4274da5a-979c-40d0-9838-94d0e3b05745