Judge rejects excuses from Trump to delay NY hush-money trial over presidential immunity

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The court found any such motion should have been filed long ago because, aside from the lapsed deadline under state law, Trump should have known the district attorney's office would reference the tweets and because he was "well aware that the defense of presidential immunity, even if unsuccessful, might be available to him."
37% : In deciding against the defense delay effort, the judge found that Trump had simply waited too long to claim presidential immunity.
36% : The circumstances, viewed as a whole, test this Court's credulity." In New York, Trump faces a 34-count felony indictment over allegedly falsified business records related to payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
31% : The defense says those late-stage acknowledgments from the state mean they could not have possibly known the case would turn on conduct that occurred while Trump was in the Oval Office.
27% : On March 7, defense attorney Todd Blanche moved to adjourn the Empire State's case against Trump until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity issues arguably implicated by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's recently filed pretrial motions.
25% : Those charges against Trump marked the first time in U.S. history that a former president faced a criminal indictment.
24% : Now, Trump is battling back against four criminal indictments in three states and the District of Columbia.

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