When is Donald Trump’s sentencing on criminal charges in his hush money trial?

Donald Trump was supposed to be sitting in a criminal courtroom in Manhattan on July 11, at the table where he spent more than 20 days hearing evidence and witness testimony against him during his hush money trial.

But instead, the former president is back on the campaign trail, after his attorneys convinced the judge presiding over the case to delay his sentencing to September 18.

On May 30, a jury convicted Trump on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a scheme to silence adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose story about having sex with Trump threatened to derail his 2016 presidential campaign.

But on July 1, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling affirming that presidents have “absolute” immunity from criminal prosecution for “official” acts in office, prompting Trump’s attorneys to scramble to have the hush money verdict thrown out and his charges dismissed in other criminal cases against him.

The New York challenge is a long shot, but Trump’slegal strategy is designed around delay tactics. Here, he has successfully delayed a sentencing date until after the Republican National Convention, and within six weeks before Election Day.

In a letter to Justice Juan Merchan on July 2, prosecutors with the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Trump’s arguments are “without merit” but that they did not oppose his request to push back the sentencing date as he files his legal arguments.

Judge Merchan announced on July 2 he will render a decision on Trump’s “immunity” arguments on September 6 and postponed the sentencing date to September 18 — “if such is still necessary”.

A notice from Trump’s attorneys arrived within hours of the Supreme Court’s ruling, which partially shields