Trump loses bid to toss hush money conviction on immunity grounds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

34% : The Supreme Court in its ruling found no immunity for a president's unofficial acts.'EXTREME REMEDY'Trump was initially scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 26, but Justice Merchan pushed that back indefinitely after his election win.
33% : By Luc Cohen and Jack QueenNEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Monday lost a bid to overturn his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's July ruling recognizing immunity from prosecution for a president's official acts.
29% : The Supreme Court, in a decision arising from one of the two federal cases against Trump, decided that presidents are immune from prosecution involving their official acts, and that juries cannot be presented evidence of official acts in trials over personal conduct.
24% : The payment was for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she has said she had a decade earlier with Trump, who denies it.
24% : 'WHOLLY UNOFFICIAL CONDUCT'The hush money case was the only one of four sets of criminal charges brought against Trump in 2023 to reach trial.
23% : Trump pleaded not guilty and called the case an attempt by Bragg, a Democrat, to harm his 2024 campaign.
22% : A Manhattan jury in May found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up the payment.
19% : Trump's lawyers earlier this month filed a separate motion urging Merchan to dismiss the charges because having them loom over Trump while he was serving as president would impede his ability to govern.
16% : Another criminal case against Trump over the 2020 election in Georgia state court is in limbo.

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