Trump hush money case prosecutors support sentencing delay but oppose case dismissal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : The judge there was considering the effect of the July ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on that case before special counsel Jack Smith asked her, after Trump's election, to pause all proceedings for now.Smith also asked a federal appeals court in Atlanta to pause proceedings in his attempt to reverse the dismissal by Florida federal district court Judge Aileen Cannon of charges against Trump related to his retention of classified government records after leaving the White House.
45% : Trump has the power to order his attorney general to toss out those cases.
43% : Those records related to a $130,000 payment his then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen made shortly before the 2016 election to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence about a purported one-time sexual tryst with Trump a decade earlier.
39% : Trump and some of the other defendants are appealing the trial court's decision to allow Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case despite having had a romantic relationship with a top prosecutor she assigned to the matter.
35% : Two criminal cases against Trump in federal court are expected to be dismissed before he enters the White House, or shortly afterward.
31% : If the case is not dismissed, and Trump is sentenced, he is not expected to serve any potential jail sentence until after he leaves the White House more than four years from now.
25% : Before the ordered pause, Trump was scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 26.
24% : In one of those cases, Trump is charged in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., with crimes related to his effort to undo his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
22% : In a fourth criminal case, in Atlanta state court, Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants are charged with crimes in connection with their attempt to reverse his 2020 defeat by Biden in Georgia.
12% : The New York case is one of four criminal prosecutions against Trump whose fate is up in the air -- or all but doomed -- because of the Republican's electoral win two weeks ago against Vice President Kamala HarrisTrump was convicted in May in Manhattan Supreme Court of 34 felony charges of falsifying business records.

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