NY Judge Agrees to Hear Trump’s Bid to Dismiss Criminal Case

The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money case said he will consider the president-elect’s latest arguments on why it should be dismissed.

The state judge, Juan Merchan, also said in his order on Friday that Trump wouldn’t be sentenced on Nov. 26, as previously scheduled. Instead, Merchan said he would weigh motions from Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors before proceeding. He didn’t set a new sentencing date.

Trump faces as many as four years in prison after a jury in May found him guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for payments to an ...