Manhattan DA urges judge not to toss out guilty verdict in Trump hush money case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : The sentencing was originally set for Nov. 26 but was put off by the judge after Trump prevailed at the polls last month.
39% : Bragg's suggestion to keep the case on ice -- rather than tossing out the conviction, as Trump is requesting -- doubles down on a proposal that the prosecutor first floated in a letter to the judge last month.
37% : Prosecutors argued that Merchan can use various mechanisms to preserve the guilty verdict while taking steps to shield Trump from consequences that could be seen as hindering his ability to focus on his presidential duties.
34% : Trump's sentencing hearing has been repeatedly delayed, and now that he has won the 2024 election, Trump says any further proceedings would interfere with his presidential duties.
27% : Bragg conceded in a court filing that Trump cannot be sentenced while he is president.
25% : Bragg's team agreed with that principle, but stopped short of saying Trump's sentencing can't go forward before Trump is sworn in next month.
21% : Merchan could also announce in advance that he won't sentence Trump to any jail time and won't consider Trump's conduct as president when determining a future sentence -- a declaration, prosecutors said, that would dramatically reduce concerns about whether the looming sentence could impede Trump's presidency.
19% : Much of Bragg's submission to the court consists of descriptions of how Trump sought to silence porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election by having attorney Michael Cohen pay her off with $130,000 and of Trump's subsequent efforts to obscure the reimbursement.
18% : Trump was found guilty in May of 34 felonies for falsifying business records related to a hush money scheme that covered up a potential sex scandal in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign.

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