Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan expected to rule on immunity in President-elect Donald Trump's hush money conviction today

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Separately, last week, Trump announced plans to nominate Blanche as deputy attorney general and Bove as principal associate deputy attorney general.
39% : Though some legal experts have speculated that Trump, who has no prior criminal convictions, would likely receive probation.
28% : At Trump's trial earlier this year, prosecutors alleged that Trump plotted a "criminal conspiracy" to win the election about two months after he announced his first run for president in June 2015.
22% : Trump died the encounter and the hush money payments.
18% : Trump was convicted in May of the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide $130,000 in hush money to an adult film actress with whom he had a sexual liaison that prosecutors argued Trump was desperate to conceal from the American public as he ran for president in the 2016 election cycle.
12% : Trump executed a series of "catch and kill" plans by paying off people alleging to have negative stories about Trump in partnership with his then-personal attorney Michael Cohen and tabloid publisher David Pecker, prosecutors said.
11% : If Merchan rules against Trump and goes forward with his scheduled Nov. 26 sentencing, Trump could be sentenced to up to four years in prison.
10% : Trump was also the first former president to be held in contempt of court after Merchan did so when Trump violated an order prohibiting him from speaking publicly about court staff or jurors.
10% : Prosecutors argued adult film actress Stormy Daniels was paid $130,000; former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who also alleged to have had an affair with Trump, was paid $150,000; Dino Sajudin, a door attendant at Trump Tower who had shopped a false story that Trump fathered a child outside his marriage, was paid $30,000.

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