Author’s note: This is the first of two columns contending, based on recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court, that New York State judge Juan Merchan should set aside the guilty verdicts ...
From the beginning, the case was treated by most legal commentators as a transparently political hit job. For one thing, combining a business records law with an election law in order to come up with ...
Donald Trump’s sentencing over hush money payments used to sway the 2016 election has been delayed. The decision by Judge Juan Merchan follows the US Supreme Court’s decision to grant him immunity ...
Ralph Nader, the Green Party's presidential nominee in 2000, urged Judge Juan Merchan to sentence former President Trump to prison, calling the judge the "last best hope" to preserve the republic.