The Federalist (January 3, 2025) reported that New York County Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan declined a motion to toss the May 2024 jury verdict and set sentencing before January 20, 2025. The Federalist quoted this sentence from an 18-page ruling: “Finding no legal impediment to sentencing and recognizing that Presidential immunity will likely attach once Defendant takes his Oath of Office, it is incumbent upon this Court to set this matter down for the imposition of sentence prior to January 20, 2025.” That quotation is The Federalist’s excerpt of the order. This site does not invent additional pages.
Daily Wire reported that on the Monday before the hearing Merchan denied a motion to stay the January 10, 2025, sentencing: “Defendant’s motion for a stay of these proceedings, including the sentencing hearing scheduled for January 10, 2025, is hereby DENIED.” Daily Wire attributed that line to Fox News’s account of the order. Again: reporting of a ruling, not a hosted PDF.
RealClearPolitics posted a January 10, 2025, video page titled with a Merchan remark about legal protections afforded to the presidency being extraordinary, “not the occupant of the office.” Treat RCP as a media transcript excerpt. Prefer an official court transcript if the court publishes one. This site will not invent a full sentencing colloquy. Unconditional-discharge descriptions in later cable write-ups are not copied here as a holding without an official PDF in hand.
A 2026 New York slip-opinion page on nycourts.gov still lists Juan M. Merchan as Acting Justice in its caption stack. This draft could not re-parse that Cloudflare-gated HTML for a holding. No 2026 ruling is invented.
On December 20, 2024, The Gateway Pundit ran Paul Ingrassia on a latest court order in the case. Ingrassia wrote that Merchan ignored the Supreme Court and the Constitution after Trump v. United States (immunity), and that the order erodes New York’s legal system. That is Ingrassia / TGP commentary on the order. A court order is Fact. This site does not write as Fact that he defied a Supreme Court stay or that the order is unconstitutional.