(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s Nov. 26 sentencing in his New York hush money case remained on the calendar as the judge weighs how to handle the case in the wake of the election.
The hearing was listed as an “adjournment” in an automated alert, and doesn’t indicate a change in the sentencing date, according to a court official. The notice was sent as a reminder a week before previously planned proceedings.
Whether a New York judge decides the hush money case should proceed to sentencing, gets delayed for four years or is simply dismissed outright is an open question hanging over the president-elect. Trump’s attorney said in a letter to the court last week that there are strong arguments for dismissal.
Prosecutors countered their office needed time to consider “unprecedented circumstances” of Trump’s reelection which they said must be balanced with the jury’s unanimous guilty verdict against the former president.
Trump, who was bogged down by four prosecutions during his presidential campaign, bet big on the election result to pave the way for an end to his legal troubles. The US Justice Department is poised to drop his two federal cases and another state case while an appellate court in Georgia said Monday that it canceled a Dec. 5 hearing on whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified because of her romance with another prosecutor.
A New York jury in May found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments to an adult-film star ahead of the 2016 election. He denies wrongdoing. A lawyer for Trump didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.
Trump’s team argued last week that continuing to prosecute Trump in the case would pose “unconstitutional impediments” to his abilities as president-elect.
The New York judge had also been scheduled to issue his decision as soon as Tuesday on Trump’s pre-election request that a landmark US Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity meant the hush money conviction should be reversed and the case should be dismissed.
(Corrects to remove erroneous information from the headline, the first and second paragraphs that indicated the case had been adjourned.)
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