Expert calls Supreme Court's immunity ruling a 'godsend from heaven for Donald Trump'

The ink barely dried on the Supreme Court's immunity ruling before Donald Trump's lawyers filed papers to compel New York Judge Juan Merchan to sideline his hush money trial guilty verdict and push back his sentencing.

And he did.

Merchan scratched the July 11 date in favor of a new date, Sept. 18, “if such is still necessary.”

Trump’s attorneys convinced Merchan to consider that Manhattan prosecutors had placed “highly prejudicial emphasis on official-acts evidence,”...