Trump Seeks Delay of Sentencing (Does Judge Merchan Expect to Lose This Fight?)

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : If Trump gets a stay from the appeals court judge, that would probably be enough to push this back past his inauguration.
51% : Merchan seems to have chosen that date knowing that once Trump is sworn into office, this case is effectively over.
41% : Trump is seeking an immediate stay that would spare him from being sentenced while he appeals Merchan's decision last week to uphold the historic verdict.
41% : Even if Trump doesn't get a stay from the New York appeals court, he has other appeals options left to him including going to a federal court or even the Supreme Court.
39% : Yesterday, Trump appealed to Judge Merchan to reconsider and, as expected, the judge said no.
39% : Trump turned to the Appellate Division of the state's trial court a day after the trial judge, Judge Juan M. Merchan, rebuffed his bid to indefinitely postpone sentencing and ordered it to go ahead as scheduled on Friday.
30% : "No sentencing before Jan. 20 means this case ends with Trump never formally becoming a felon.
24% : As I noted last week, Jonathan Turley thought Trump would have a difficult time stopping the sentencing from taking place this Friday.
17% : For example, rejecting Trump's argument that the crimes for which he was convicted are comparably not so grave, Merchan castigated Trump for the "premeditated and continuous deception" that underlie his conviction on 34 counts of falsification of business records with the intent to defraud, including "an intent to commit or conceal a conspiracy to promote a presidential election by unlawful means."...Do those words read as if Merchan understood, when calibrating his opinion, that because of Trump's expected appellate efforts, this could be his last public statement in Trump's case?

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