New York judge postpones Trump's sentencing in hush money case

[T]here can be no federal criminal investigations or prosecutions of Mr. Trump while he is in office." ... But there are the midterm elections in two years, and in the meantime a Democratic Party in dire need of reimagining and a public to win over."

Because of this dynamic, Moyn declared ... Rather, he advocated for diminishing Trump by political means only

The election became something like national jury nullification — after the fact for the New York case, and pre-emptively for the others."

Moyn added

The yearslong effort to vanquish Donald Trump in court was a dismal failure,

the professor wrote

Yet many liberals, convinced that their causes were righteous, didn’t register the risks of this legalistic strategy, which included being seen by voters as treating the law as politics by other means. The criminal investigations fueled their target’s dominance of the Republican primary race and breathed new life into his campaign fund-raising,

he wrote

While liberals saw breakthroughs afterward for women and L.G.B.T.Q. people, delivering progress more quickly than elections could, they failed to stop the conservative drift of American law,

he stated

But when Mr. Mueller’s inconclusive report was released in April 2019, it was an embarrassment to liberals. The politics of law had misdirected their focus for years, and in the process convinced millions of Americans that Mr. Trump’s foes were as prone to conspiratorial thinking as his allies,

he said

No current law establishes that a president's temporary immunity from prosecution requires dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding that was initiated at a time when the defendant was not immune from criminal prosecution and that is based on unofficial conduct for which the defendant is also not immune,

said the Manhattan District Attorney's Office

In a decisive win for President Trump, the hoax Manhattan Case is now fully stayed and sentencing is adjourned,

Trump's communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement

It is... ordered that the joint application for a stay of sentencing is granted to the extent that the November 26, 2024 date is adjourned,

said Judge Juan Merchan in an order

The defendant's request for leave to file a motion to dismiss... is granted,

added Merchan's order

Just as a sitting President is completely immune from any criminal process, so too is President Trump as President-elect,

Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove argued in a filing Wednesday

Given the need to balance competing constitutional interests, consideration must be given to various non-dismissal options that may address any concerns raised by the pendency of a post-trial criminal proceeding during the presidency, such as deferral of all remaining criminal proceedings until after the end of Defendant’s upcoming presidential term,

prosecutors added

The Court must address these new issues and dismiss the case, prior to issuing a decision on the previously filed Presidential immunity motion,

Blanche explained

On November 5, 2024, the Nation’s People issued a mandate that supersedes the political motivations of DANY’s ‘People,

Blanche wrote

As in those cases, dismissal is necessary here,

their filing said

The American People have issued a mandate to return him to office and dispose of all remnants of the Witch Hunt cases,

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement

YUGE win in Manhattan DA case Sentencing cancelled, the judge also apparently asked to file papers to dismiss case,

he wrote