IMMUNITY/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “A judge on Wednesday [April 3, 2024] rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases — spurning another of the former president’s ploys to put off the historic trial indefinitely. Several more are pending.
Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan declared the request untimely, ruling that Trump’s lawyers had ‘myriad opportunities’ to raise the immunity issue before they finally did so last month, well after a deadline for pretrial motions had already passed.”
-Michael R. Sisak, “Judge rejects Donald Trump’s request to delay hush-money trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity,” yahoo.com, April 3, 2024