Donald Trump will not be sentenced for the 34 felony charges he was found guilty of in May until after the election, giving him extra time to try to overturn his conviction and allowing him to run for reelection without the possibility of doing so from prison.
On Friday, Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw Trump’s criminal case in Manhattan, postponed the sentencing until November 26—three weeks after the 2024 election and more than two months after September 18, the day Trump was originally supposed to learn his fate. That date itself was a delay—the ex-president’s original sentencing was set for July 11, but Trump’s lawyers asked for it to be moved.
In his ruling, Merchan cited the “unique time frame this matter currently finds itself in,” saying: “This is not a decision this court makes lightly but it is the decision which in this court’s view, best advances the interests of justice.” He added that the court is a “fair, impartial and apolitical institution” and that “the integrity of our judicial system demands” the sentencing be “free from distraction or distortion.”
In response to the news, the Trump campaign claimed “there should be no sentencing” at all and ranted about “election interference” and “witch hunt[s]” for what was, conservatively, the billionth time since Trump was charged with 34 class E felonies stemming from the hush money deal paid to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election.
Trump and his legal team are currently attempting to overturn his May conviction following a ruling from the Supreme Court that presidents are free to commit federal crimes so long as said crimes fall under their “official” duties. That argument recently failed when Team Trump used it to try to move his Manhattan case to federal court, with Judge Alvin Hellerstein writing: “Nothing in the Supreme Court’s opinion affects my previous conclusion that the hush money payments were private, unofficial acts, outside the bounds of executive authority.”
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