And Judge Merchan made it abundantly clear that it was not the president who deserved or whose position necessitated the treatment. Rather, it was the legal protections afforded to the office ...

We included claims, which we defined as instances of uninterrupted blocks of speech from a single speaker that attacked the impartiality of Judge Juan Merchan. For host monologues, headlines ...

Last Friday, New York county judge Juan Merchan proceeded with official sentencing of Donald J. Trump following the president-elect's controversial May 2024 conviction for business records ...

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 ...

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Smith’s political exercise is of a piece with Judge Juan Merchan’s insistence that Trump be sentenced last week. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg declined to dismiss the absurd case ...

On Friday, New York Judge Juan Merchan sentenced President-elect Donald Trump to an unconditional discharge in Trump’s 2016 election subversion hush money case. This means Trump will avoid jail ...

is an unconditional discharge,” Judge Juan Merchan told Mr. Trump. “Sir, I wish you godspeed as you assume your second term in office.” This isn’t what Mr. Bragg, the Manhattan District ...

Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan delivered the sentence formally making Trump the first criminal convict to assume the Oval Office, and it carries no jail time, probation, or fines. Trump attended the ...

The Issue: Judge Juan Merchan’s no-penalty sentence for President-elect Donald Trump in “hush money” case. The real felons are the politicians who have gone after President-elect Donald ...