The complaints accused the judge of violating judicial ethics rules by commenting on the merits of a pending case. Read more ...

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his historic hush money case to an unconditional discharge -- allowing Trump to avoid prison, fines or probation, but cementing his status as a ...

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Instead New York judge Juan Merchan handed down the mildest criminal sanction available, an unconditional discharge -- a relatively uncommon measure. "Never before has this court been presented ...

But Justice Juan ... New York judge again upheld the conviction, even as he floated the possibility that Trump will not face any concrete penalties. A sentence of “unconditional discharge ...

We included claims, which we defined as instances of uninterrupted blocks of speech from a single speaker that attacked the impartiality of Judge Juan Merchan. For host monologues, headlines ...

Judge Juan Merchan is handling Trump’s criminal case, the first ever for a former or sitting president. Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts stemming from payments made to his then-fixer ...

Judge Juan Merchan said Trump ... The judge said that instead of incarceration he was leaning towards an unconditional discharge – meaning the real estate tycoon would not be subject to ...

The headline in Donald Trump’s imminent “hush money” trial, which starts in Manhattan in just eleven days, is that Judge Juan Merchan rejected the former president’s eleventh-hour claim of ...

(Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) Former president Trump has a good argument that Judge Juan Merchan should recuse himself from the ongoing “hush money” trial due to patent political bias. I’ve ...

A U.S. judge has been cleared of alleged wrongdoing for going on CNN to speak out against threats made against members of the ...

Trump's lawyers told Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan in court papers Monday that dismissal is warranted because of the extraordinary circumstances of his impending return to the White House.