Here's What Judge Juan Merchan Just Ruled About Trump's Hush Money Conviction

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Trump has separately argued that his White House victory compels the dismissal of the jury's verdict and the case in its entirety.
43% : "Trump was indicted by a grand jury in late March of last year and arraigned last April on 34 charges.
33% : Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has also been the cause of plenty of headaches for Trump and his legal team.
28% : Merchan's name has been in the news quite a bit with this case, from concerns about his conflicts of interest thanks to his adult daughter, to his problematic jury instructions all but further guaranteeing Trump would be found guilty, which he was, on all 34 counts.
24% : Bragg charged Trump with felonies in the case when he could have brought the charges as misdemeanors, was using an untested legal theory, and went after Trump after the statute of limitations had expired.
18% : Not only has Bragg's office stubbornly tried to resists dismissing such charges against the president-elect, but when Special Counsel Jack Smith moved last month to drop all the charges he brought against Trump be dropped, he did so without prejudice, meaning that such charges could theoretically be brought again in 2029, when Trump is no longer in office.

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