Will Trump's criminal conviction be thrown out? Judge to rule Tuesday

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Trump, by then in the White House, signed most of the checks himself.
54% : Before the election, a federal judge repeatedly said no to the move, but Trump has appealed.
51% : The case centered on how Trump accounted for reimbursing his personal attorney for the Daniels payment.
47% : Trump has been fighting for months to overturn the verdict and could now seek to leverage his status as president-elect.
41% : Trump was a private citizen -- campaigning for president, but neither elected nor sworn in -- when Cohen paid Daniels in October 2016.
37% : The payout was to buy her silence about claims that she had sex with Trump.
33% : A jury convicted Trump in May of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels in 2016.
28% : While urging Merchan to nix the conviction, Trump also has been trying to move the case to federal court.
10% : Trump said that Cohen was legitimately paid for legal services, and that Daniels' story was suppressed to avoid embarrassing Trump's family, not to influence the electorate.

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