NEW: Trump sentencing likely delayed. Manhattan DA's office says it would not oppose a brief delay to brief issues surrounding immunity decision. (via Frank G. Runyeon, Law360)
Don't worry about this, friends! Nothing is likely to change—it's just customary to allow briefing on new issues. No doubt the Trump team will raise this issue on appeal, but my first impression is that it's very unlikely to succeed
Some conversations used against him took place while he was president, so Trump's attorneys will argue those conversations are now inadmissible. A cynical person might conclude the SCOTUS decision was carefully crafted to inflict the maximum feasible chaos on *all* of Trump's criminal cases.
The specific crime Trump was convicted of involved his signing checks to Cohen while he was president, which were to conceal the crime he committed before he won the 2016 election.
Very excited to see this get appealed to the Supreme Court, where the Republican judges will rule that signing checks to cover up a hush money payment are indeed official acts!
