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President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case in New York

By Lindsay Whitehurst and Mark Sherman - Associated Press

FILE - Former President Donald Trump waits for the start of proceedings in Manhattan criminal court, April 23, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool, File)

Trump’s lawyers ask judge to halt Friday’s hush money case sentencing while they appeal to block it

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (Timothy A. Clary/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Trump’s lawyers claim evidence of ‘grave juror misconduct’ during hush money trial

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump waits for the start of proceedings in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in New York. Before testimony resumes Tuesday, the judge will hold a hearing on prosecutors' request to sanction and fine Trump over social media posts they say violate a gag order prohibiting him from attacking key witnesses. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Trump’s lawyers, citing Hunter Biden pardon, urge judge to toss his hush money conviction

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FILE - Former President Donald Trump gestures as he leaves after speaking at a news conference at Trump Tower, Friday, May 31, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

What happens to Donald Trump’s criminal conviction? Here are a few ways it could go

By Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

Judge Juan M. Merchan poses in his chambers in New York, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Judge rejects Trump’s latest demand to step aside from hush money criminal case

By Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Chesapeake, Va., Friday, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

Trump seeks to set aside New York verdict hours after Supreme Court ruling

By Michael R. Sisak and Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

The Latest | Lawyers in Trump hush money case paint competing portraits of him in opening statements

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Stormy Daniels appears at an event, May 23, 2018, in West Hollywood, Calif. The hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday, April 15, 2024, with jury selection. It's the first criminal trial of a former U.S. commander-in-chief. The charges in the trial center on $130,000 in payments that Trump's company made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen. He paid that sum on Trump's behalf to keep Daniels from going public, a month before the election, with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Stormy Daniels refused subpoena outside a Brooklyn bar, Trump lawyers say

By Jake Offenhartz and Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump attends the first day of his criminal trial, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on April 15, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP via AP Pool)

Trump’s history-making hush-money trial begins with challenge of picking a jury

By Jennifer Peltz, Michael R. Sisak and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks Wednesday, April 10, 2024, after arriving in Atlanta. Trump on Wednesday questioned the mental fitness of Jewish voters who back President Joe Biden and framed this year's election as a referendum on the strength of Christianity in the U.S. as part of a blunt effort to appeal to evangelical conservatives who are a critical element of his political base. (AP Photo/Jason Allen)

Trump’s lawyers try for a third day to get N.Y. appeals court to delay hush-money trial

By Michael R. Sisak and Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks, April 2, 2024, at a rally in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer, File)

N.Y. appeals judge rejects Trump’s request to delay his April 15 hush money trial

By Michael R. Sisak and Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks, April 2, 2024, at a rally in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer, File)

Trump asks appeals court to intervene in last-minute bid to delay hush money criminal case

By Michael R. Sisak and Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks after hearing at New York Criminal Court, Monday, March 25, 2024, in New York. New York Judge Juan M. Merchan has scheduled an April 15 trial date in Trump's hush money case. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Judge rejects Trump’s request to delay hush money trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump leaves Manhattan criminal court, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. Judge Juan Manuel Merchan agreed Friday, March 16, to delay former President Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial in New York until mid-April after his lawyers said they needed more time to sift through new evidence. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

‘Access Hollywood’ tape won’t be played at Trump’s hush money trial, judge rules

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

In this courtroom sketch, Judge Juan Manuel Merchan responds to former President Donald Trump's attorney, Todd Blanche's argument for a trial start delay during a hearing in New York, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Trump’s hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25, Merchan ruled Thursday, turning aside demands for a delay from the former president’s defense lawyers. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

‘There’s no agenda here’: A look at the judge who is overseeing Trump’s hush money trial

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press