{"id":15343,"date":"2024-11-12T19:14:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15343"},"modified":"2024-11-12T19:14:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:14:30","slug":"trumps-lawyers-ask-judge-to-throw-out-his-hush-money-case-in-light-of-his-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15343","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s lawyers ask judge to throw out his hush money case in light of his election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Donald Trump\u2019s lawyers have asked the judge who oversaw his Manhattan hush money trial, which ended in a conviction on 34 felony counts, to throw out the case now that Trump is president-elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dismissing the case is \u201cnecessary to avoid unconstitutional impediments to President Trump\u2019s ability to govern,\u201d Trump\u2019s lawyers wrote in a letter to the court made public Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In light of Trump\u2019s request, Justice Juan Merchan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25288995-2024-11-10-order-filed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agreed to pause<\/a>&nbsp;all proceedings in the case, including a ruling that had been expected Tuesday on whether the Supreme Court\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/01\/supreme-court-trump-immunity-opinion-00166014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">July decision on presidential immunity<\/a>&nbsp;requires that Trump\u2019s conviction be tossed.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case is now on hold until Nov. 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/12\/trump-lawyers-ask-judge-dismiss-hush-money-case-00188992\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/12\/trump-lawyers-ask-judge-dismiss-hush-money-case-00188992<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Donald Trump\u2019s lawyers have asked the judge who oversaw his Manhattan hush money trial, which ended in a conviction on 34 felony counts, to throw out the case now that Trump is president-elect.<br \/>\nDismissing the case is \u201cnecessary to avoid unconstitutional impediments to President Trump\u2019s ability to govern,\u201d Trump\u2019s lawyers wrote in a letter to the court made public Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In light of Trump\u2019s request, Justice Juan Merchan agreed to pause all proceedings in the case, including a ruling that had been expected Tuesday on whether the Supreme Court\u2019s July decision on presidential immunity requires that Trump\u2019s conviction be tossed.  <\/p>\n<p>The case is now on hold until Nov. 19.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/12\/trump-lawyers-ask-judge-dismiss-hush-money-case-00188992<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[790,744,280,221,1213,170],"class_list":["post-15343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice","tag-donald-trump","tag-judiciary","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15344,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions\/15344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}