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Alvin Bragg, in Surprise Move, Agrees To Delay Ruling in Trump’s Hush Money Case To Assess the Impact of the Election

The aim is to reconsider whether the 45th president’s victory at the ballot box makes a prison sentence impossible.

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President Trump with attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 29, 2024. Jabin Botsford-pool/Getty Images
A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

Judge Juan Merchan’s 11th-hour freeze of the hush money case against President Trump signals that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is not blind to the enormity of the issue presented by Trump’s triumph at the polls.

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A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law degree from Stanford.

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