The president-elect laid out his thoughts on Merchan and the requirement to show up for sentencing on January 10 in his criminal hush money case.

But the charges were dismissed after Trump was elected because of a Justice Department rule ... New York Judge Juan Manuel Merchan has presided over criminal cases against former President Trump ...

Juan Manuel Merchan was born in Bogota ... In 2009, he was appointed acting state Supreme Court justice. He has since been remarried, to Lara Bernstein, an Nassau County assistant district ...

Juan Manuel Merchan What to know: Trump was indicted last June on charges stemming from the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate ...

Judge Juan Manuel Merchan scheduled a hearing for March 25 ... but they stopped short of accusing Trump of directly committing a crime. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel ...

Donald Trump, felon, will remain exactly that. A felon. He also will remain a free man, ready to take the oath of office Jan.

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 ...

Justice Juan M. Merchan, an even-keeled jurist, has been in the president-elect’s cross-hairs for nearly two years. By Kate Christobek In nearly two decades on the bench, Justice Juan M.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan is abusing his power one last time in a bid to ensure that Donald Trump is technically a convicted felon when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.