How the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling complicates Trump's sentencing in New York

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Merchan will have to decide whether the fact that Trump sent reimbursement checks to his former lawyer Michael Cohen from the White House, after he had been inaugurated, makes it rise to the level of an official act.
38% : The decision also leaves open the possibility that Trump could face no repercussions, despite the New York jury's guilty verdicts.
29% : Their argument is that invalidates the verdict that found Trump had falsified business records to hide a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, because prosecutors partly built their case on evidence that dated to the months after Trump had become president.
26% : While most analysts believed that Trump would avoid jail time since this was his first criminal conviction, other factors, such as his repeated violation of Merchan's gag orders put in place during the trial, made that uncertain.
26% : At the very least, the court gave Trump's lawyers another line of appeal should Merchan move forward and sentence Trump after hearing the arguments from his lawyers.
14% : " While much of the evidence surrounding Trump's alleged deal with National Enquirer publisher David Pecker and Cohen to kill damaging stories about the 2016 presidential candidate took place prior to Trump being elected, a fair bit of it came after, as a shows.

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