Prosecutors say sentencing in Trump hush money case can be postponed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Trump was charged last year with having falsified business records to cover up his reimbursement of a hush money payment his then-lawyer Michael Cohen paid to porn star Stormy Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 election.
43% : A ruling against Trump on the issue would have paved the way for the judge to proceed with his sentencing, which was tentatively scheduled for Nov. 26.
35% : "Trump has denied any wrongdoing in the case, which he claimed was politically motivated because Bragg is a Democrat.
32% : "The case was the only one of the four criminal cases brought against Trump after he left office in 2021 to go to trial, and the jury verdict marked the first time a former president had ever been convicted of a crime.
30% : Lawyers for Trump contended it was a mistake for any of that evidence to be presented to the jury, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's subsequent July 1 ruling expanding the limits of presidential immunity.
29% : Merchan was tentatively scheduled to sentence Trump later this month on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, but that outcome was thrown into doubt last week after the DA's office asked the judge to temporarily stay the proceedings while it considered the impact of Trump's election victory on the case.
27% : Daniels claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, an allegation he's denied.
25% : The other pending criminal case against the president-elect is Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's sprawling racketeering case alleging Trump and over a dozen co-conspirators illegally tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
22% : Trump was convicted on all counts in May.
22% : That case has been paused while Trump and some of his co-defendants seek to have an appeals court remove Willis from the case for an alleged conflict of interest.

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