On Tuesday, Judge Juan Merchan was expected to rule on the post-trial motion filed by President-elect Donald Trump’s legal team in his Manhattan criminal case asserting that the verdict should be set aside on the grounds of presidential immunity following the Supreme Court’s ruling on that issue. He’d already put it off by a week in response to a joint request by Trump’s team and District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office to postpone it.
But when the moment came, initially, it appeared Merchan had put that off indefinitely and postponed the sentencing set for November 26. Then we learned that was merely an automated schedule alert rather than a substantive move by the judge. Shortly thereafter, Bragg’s office filed a letter with the court requesting that the case be formally adjourned to allow time for Trump’s legal team to file an additional motion to dismiss…
