Professor Gregory Germain spoke with Salon for an article about the September 18 sentencing of Donald Trump in the New York criminal case and efforts made by Trump’s attorneys to have the sentencing postponed until after the upcoming election.
“I think Trump’s request to delay sentencing is a clever ploy to make a record to argue in federal court that the judge was politically motivated to interfere with the federal election,” says Germain. “I doubt that the court will delay sentencing, but it will give Trump an additional argument to challenge the sentencing on appeal, or collaterally in a habeas corpus case if he’s sentenced to prison.”