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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer of New York's Appellate Division, First Department said that the proximity to the inauguration was due to motions filed by Trump, delaying his initial sentencing date in July.
49% : "The prospect of imposing sentence on President Trump just before he assumes Office as the 47th President raises the specter of other possible restrictions on liberty, such as travel, reporting requirements, registration, probationary requirements, and others -- all of which would be constitutionally intolerable under the doctrine of Presidential immunity," John Sauer, Trump's attorney and pick for solicitor general, wrote.
40% : In a blockbuster ruling favoring Trump last June, the conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court found that former presidents had absolute immunity for duties within their core powers and some immunity for other official actions.
39% : Trump suggested he was entitled to an automatic pause on the New York trial court proceedings scheduled for Friday morning because he is pursuing a presidential immunity claim challenging his conviction on 34 felony counts.
36% : Trump claims that his New York conviction relied on the evidentiary use of his official acts.
34% : "New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who presided over the hush money case, made an exception that Trump would be allowed to attend his sentencing remotely.
30% : A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records last year.
30% : Merchan has ruled out jail time, suggesting he would seek unconditional discharge -- a sentence preserving the jury's verdict but preventing Trump from serving any punishment so he could focus on his presidency.
25% : Trump argued that any adjudication of his felony convictions carried collateral consequences even if imprisonment was off the table.
24% : Still, Trump says holding the hearing at "the apex of the presidential transition period" violates due process and New York criminal law.

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