Tracking the criminal and civil cases against Donald Trump
Associated Presskey developments: September 6, 2024: Judge Juan M. Merchan agrees to postpone Donald Trump’s sentencing until Nov. 26, about three weeks after Election Day. April 15, 2024: Jury selection begins in Donald Trump’s hush money case, marking the start of the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. April 3, 2024: Judge Juan M. Merchan rejects Donald Trump’s bid to postpone the trial until after the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases. March 25, 2024: Judge Juan Manuel Merchan orders Trump’s hush-money trial to begin April 15, rejecting the defense’s calls to postponement it until summer or throw out the charges entirely. Merchan acknowledges that he made several small donations to Democratic causes during the 2020 campaign, including $15 to Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden, but said he is certain of his “ability to be fair and impartial.” July 19, 2023: U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein rejects Trump’s bid to move the case from state court to federal court, ruling that the former president had failed to meet a high legal bar for changing jurisdiction.