President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers urge judge to toss his hush-money conviction - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Trump takes office on Jan. 20.
46% : The defense filing was signed by Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who represented Trump during the trial and have since been selected by the president-elect to fill senior roles at the Justice Department.
36% : Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime and the first convicted criminal to be elected to the office.
35% : Merchan could also decide to uphold the verdict and proceed to sentencing, delay the case until Trump leaves office, wait until a federal appeals court rules on Trump's parallel effort to get the case moved out of state court or choose some other option.
34% : Trump has been fighting for months to reverse the conviction, which involved efforts to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels, whose affair allegations threatened to disrupt his 2016 campaign.
28% : Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels, just before the 2016 presidential election, to suppress her claim that they had sex a decade earlier.
26% : Trump later reimbursed him, and Trump's company logged the reimbursements as legal expenses -- concealing what they really were, prosecutors alleged.
6% : In their filing Monday, Trump's attorneys dismissed the idea of holding off sentencing until Trump is out of office as a "ridiculous suggestion.

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