New York Justice Juan Merchan’s decision to let Donald Trump go unpunished for his 34 felony-count convictions was the right one.

Former president Donald Trump is familiar with New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing his sentencing in Manhattan on Friday. Trump was convicted by a jury there for ...

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan is abusing his power one last time in a bid to ensure that Donald Trump is technically a convicted felon when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

The former president has separately sued the judge in a state appeals court, claiming that the judge overstepped his jurisdiction when he denied Trump’s presidential “immunity” defense by allowing the ...

Justice Juan M. Merchan, an even-keeled jurist, has been in the president-elect’s cross-hairs for nearly two years. By Kate Christobek In nearly two decades on the bench, Justice Juan M.

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan in March. (Seth Wenig/AP) President-elect Donald Trump will enter office as a convicted and sentenced criminal, provided the Supreme Court does not once ...

Trump was found guilty in May of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over allegations that he instructed his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to ...

Trump was found guilty in May of 34 felonies for authorizing a scheme in 2017 to falsify records in order to cover up ...

Donald Trump, the first convicted felon to be elected president, was sentenced today in his New York hush-money case, pleasing virtually no one.

Acting Justice Juan Merchan will finally decide whether “to be or not to be” the judge to sentence Trump to jail. (Spoiler alert: He appears set to avoid a jail sentence and likely reversal.) ...

The president-elect laid out his thoughts on Merchan and the requirement to show up for sentencing on January 10 in his criminal hush money case.

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 ...