Trump, If Denied Immunity in New York, Could Have To Mount a Lightning Appeal To Avoid Prison
The 45th president would have only a day or so to persuade a higher court to overrule Judge Merchan.
September will bring a swiveling of eyes to New York, where Judge Juan Merchan is set to make two decisions that could alter the trajectory of President Trump’s future — and America’s. Trump, though, could mount an unprecedented and lightning appeal to stop a prison sentence from being handed down.
On September 16 Judge Merchan is scheduled to rule on whether the Supreme Court’s landmark immunity decision in Trump v. United States upends the “guilty” verdicts brought in against the 45th president on 34 felony counts in the Manhattan hush-money case. Two days later, he will hand down a sentence against Trump for those convictions, one that could include prison time.
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