Justice Juan M. Merchan, an even-keeled jurist, has been in the president-elect’s cross-hairs for nearly two years.

Juan Manuel Merchan was born in Bogota, Colombia, on July 29, 1962, during a period of violence involving the government, peasant self-defense groups, communists, students, Catholic radicals and ...

Former president Donald Trump is familiar with New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan ... s what you need to know about Merchan: The judge, who was born in Colombia and grew up in the ...

Long Islander Juan M. Merchan will go down in history as the judge who sentenced President ... who The New York Times has reported is a native of Colombia, grew up in Queens and graduated ...

After the trial, on Jan. 3, Merchan slammed Trump's "lack of respect for judges, juries, grand juries and the justice system as a whole" and rejected his last-ditch bid to have the verdict tossed due ...

It was a brief and relatively calm final encounter of Trump's relationship with Justice Juan Merchan ... Colombia to New York City as a child, became a prosecutor in 1994 and was appointed a judge ...

Still two weeks away from taking office, Trump has begun outlining an aggressive foreign policy with little regard to ...

New York Judge Juan Merchan gave Americans an unusual level of access Friday by making public the audio from President-elect Donald Trump 's criminal sentencing.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan is abusing ... Trump’s conviction being reversed. Merchan plans to sentence Trump on Friday. AP So the judge has been dragging things out so that ...