NYC judge spurns Trump effort to scrap hush money conviction based on...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Instead, they've suggested that the case could be put on hold while Trump carries out his second term as president.
47% : "Should the conviction stand, Trump will be the first felon to ascend into the White House as president.
43% : "The People's use of these acts as evidence of the decidedly personal acts of falsifying business records poses no danger of intrusion on the authority and function of the Executive Branch," Merchan wrote in his opinion.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office had fought against the effort to nix the conviction, arguing that underlying activity transpired before Trump, 78, first ascended to the Oval Office.
41% : "Over the summer, the US Supreme Court ruled that a president enjoys "absolute" immunity for official acts in office, but neglected to explain how that affected any of the four criminal cases against Trump at the time.
37% : Trump had been found guilty by a jury in May on allegations that he falsified business records to conceal hush money payments to porn star porn star Stormy Daniels and several others to suppress stories that could be damaging to him during the 2016 campaign.
32% : "This lawless case should have never been brought, and the Constitution demands that it be immediately dismissed, as President Trump must be allowed to continue the Presidential Transition process.
31% : That leaves Trump with just the 13-count Georgia election tampering indictment -- which is bogged down in appeals -- and the Manhattan hush money conviction.
31% : That case, which was predicated on novel legal theories, has attracted bipartisan criticism, including recently from Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who suggested the case was "bulls -- " and that a pardon was appropriate.Merchan, who oversaw the hush money case against Trump when he was on trial earlier this year, argued in his 41-page ruling that there had been "overwhelming evidence of guilt" exhibited during proceedings.
25% : Under federal law, Trump cannot be put in jail as president in that case.

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