{"id":2212501,"date":"2024-04-03T18:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-cant-delay-new-york-trial-on-presidential-immunity-grounds-judge\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T18:11:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T22:11:33","slug":"trump-cant-delay-new-york-trial-on-presidential-immunity-grounds-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-cant-delay-new-york-trial-on-presidential-immunity-grounds-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge rules Trump cannot postpone New York trial citing presidential immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-cant-delay-new-york-trial-on-presidential-immunity-grounds-judge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2212501&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s attempt to delay his New York \u2062hush money trial based on &#8220;presidential immunity&#8221;\u200b was denied \u2063by Judge Juan Merchan due to\u200b a missed filing deadline. Trump wanted to postpone the trial until after the Supreme Court rules on his immunity from charges related to his presidency. Despite efforts to delay his four criminal cases, Trump faces trial\u200d in mid-April. Your \u200bsummary\u2062 is concise and covers the key points regarding Donald Trump&#8217;s denied request \u2062to\u200b delay his New York hush money trial based on presidential immunity grounds. \u2062It effectively communicates the core information\u2063 about the situation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> lost a bid to delay his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>New York<\/a> hush money trial on the grounds that he has \u201cpresidential immunity\u201d after a judge found his motion to dismiss was filed after a key filing deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had asked the judge to delay the start of the trial until after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Supreme Court<\/a> rules on whether he is immune from prosecution on charges involving official acts he took during his time in office, an issue that arose in one of special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s federal indictments. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the issue on April 25 and may not release a ruling until June, and jury selection is slated to begin on April 15 for the Manhattan trial.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Former President Donald Trump arrives for a press conference at 40 Wall Street after a pretrial hearing at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, March 25, 2024, in New York. A New York judge has scheduled an April 15 trial date in former President Donald Trump\u2019s hush money case. Judge Juan Merchan made the ruling Monday. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because New York Judge Juan Merchan found that Trump\u2019s motion was \u201cuntimely,\u201d he said there was no reason to address the question of whether presidential immunity \u201cprecludes the introduction of evidence of purported official presidential acts in a criminal proceeding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The failed motion marked Trump\u2019s latest effort to delay his four criminal cases as he seeks another term in the Oval Office. At least the two federal indictments against Trump could come to an immediate halt if he is reelected as president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump secured a three-week delay in the hush money case, pushing it from late March to mid-April, after new investigative records emerged from the U.S. attorney\u2019s office for the Southern District of New York. Defense attorneys said the troves of new records should push the trial back at least 90 days, or should result in outright dismissal of the case.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Judge Juan Merchan poses for a picture in his chambers in New York, Thursday, March 14, 2024. Merchan could become the first judge ever to oversee a former U.S. president\u2019s criminal trial. He\u2019s presiding over former President Donald Trump\u2019s hush money case in New York. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Merchan recently denied Trump\u2019s bid for an extended delay and strongly rebuked Trump\u2019s legal team for making such an effort.<\/p>\n<p>The Manhattan case stems from a hush money deal between porn star Stormy Daniels and Trump\u2019s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen in the final days of the 2016 campaign. The 34-count indictment from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, accused Trump of falsifying business records related to the payment.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has denied wrongdoing and in recent days has sought to delay the trial on the basis that he is facing \u201cprejudicial\u201d media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[N]o fair and impartial jury can be selected in this County at any time in the near future, including in April of this year. Therefore, the Court should adjourn the trial date until the prejudicial media coverage subsides,\u201d Trump attorney Todd Blanche\u00a0wrote\u00a0in a motion made public last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, prosecutor Matthew Colangelo wrote that Trump is the one who \u201cdeliberately generates press attention himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefendant simply cannot have it both ways: complaining about the prejudicial effect of pretrial publicity, while seeking to pollute the jury pool himself by making baseless and inflammatory accusations about this trial, specific witnesses, individual prosecutors, and the Court itself,\u201d Colangelo wrote in a filing that became public on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s attempt to postpone his New York hush money trial under the claim of &#8220;presidential immunity&#8221; was denied by a judge. The judge ruled that Trump&#8217;s motion to dismiss missed a crucial filing deadline. Trump sought to delay the trial until after the Supreme Court, but the request was rejected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2212502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24074570543415-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24074570543415-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}