Justice Juan Merchan must recuse himself His political bias against Trump is obvious Judge Juan M. Merchan poses in his chambers in New York, Thursday, March 14, 2024.

Justice Juan M. Merchan cautioned Donald Trump against incendiary rhetoric. Then the former president went after the judge’s family.

Justice Merchan has handled felony trials since 2009. He previously worked in the New York attorney general’s office and in the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

Justice Juan Merchan on Friday denied Trump's bid for an 'interest-of-justice' dismissal, setting sentencing for 10 days before inauguration.

Manhattan Acting Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan presided over the fraud trial of Trump's namesake real estate company and the related Trump Payroll Corporation, which ended in December with a ...

The temporary delay, agreed to by Manhattan prosecutors, allows the President-elect's legal team time to argue for dismissal.

That was the upshot of New York Justice Juan Merchan’s deft handling, with a critical assist from the U.S. Supreme Court, of Trump’s conviction on cover-up charges tied to hush-money payments ...

In a four-page letter on Friday, Acting Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan explained his reasoning in postponing Donald Trump’s sentencing for his 34 felony convictions in the ...

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan rejected Donald Trump’s third attempt to oust the judge from the former president's hush money trial ahead of the Sept. 18 sentencing.

Justice Merchan is tired of Trump’s attempts to remove him from the hush money case, writing in a new motion that the “defendant’s arguments are nothing more than a repetition of stale and ...

House GOP lawmakers are demanding New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s daughter turn over documents to the House Judiciary Committee as they probe allegations of a conflict of interest ...

In an order on Monday, New York Justice Juan Merchan found Trump’s latest arguments to be, “for the most part, a repetition of the arguments he has raised numerous times in the past.” ...