President-elect Donald Trump filed an emergency petition to the United States Supreme Court Wednesday morning in an effort to block his sentencing in New York v. Trump. Judge Juan Merchan set ...

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.

Donald Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records. He was sentenced Friday in a New York court.

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 ...

MANHATTAN (CN) — Donald Trump is appealing the New York criminal conviction that made him the first felon to hold the ...

Update: The U.S. Supreme Court declined ... to the state’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan. In a May trial presided ...

Judge Juan Merchan understands that jury verdicts matter. And in this case, the verdict matters more than the sentence.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan. It asks the Supreme Court to resolve whether Trump is entitled to a pause in the proceedings, whether the admission of evidence at his trial violated ...

of the criminal proceedings in his Manhattan case as he fights a set of rulings by state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, meaning the proceeding will go forward Friday. The judges were not ...

The trial judge, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, has said he does not plan to sentence Trump to jail time or probation. But the sentencing would complete the process of Trump being ...

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial, has said he does not plan to give the incoming president jail time or probation. The completion of the sentencing ...