NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge has delayed a highly-anticipated decision in Donald Trump’s hush money case following his election victory at the request of the president-elect’s lawyers and the Manhattan district attorney, according to court documents filed Tuesday. State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan granted a joint motion to postpone his decision on Trump’s request to throw out the case and other deadlines until Nov. 19, according to email correspondence between his clerk and the parties uploaded to the case’s docket.
The clerk said that was the deadline for prosecutors to advise Merchan of their view of the appropriate steps going forward. Trump’s legal team on Friday asked the DA to agree to pause all upcoming proceedings “to provide time to review and consider a number of arguments based on the impact on this proceeding from the results of the Presidential election,” Trump’s forthcoming certification as President-elect on Jan. 6, and his inauguration on Jan.
20, Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo informed the court in an email Sunday morning. “The People agree that these are unprecedented circumstances,” Colangelo wrote. Colangelo said the next steps required “careful consideration” to appropriately balance the competing interests of a jury’s verdicts finding Trump guilty of felonies and “the Office of the President.
” With all deadlines in the case put on pause, Trump’s sentencing, set for Nov. 26, remains in limbo. Merchan.
