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Trump Has Been Convicted. Can He Still Run for President? [1]

['Maggie Astor']

Date: 2024-09

Not since Eugene V. Debs campaigned from a prison cell more than a century ago has the United States experienced what is now happening: a prominent candidate with felony convictions running for president. And never before has that candidate been someone with a real chance of winning.

A Manhattan jury convicted former President Donald J. Trump in May of falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to a porn star. He has been charged with dozens of other felonies across three additional cases: two federal and one in Georgia.

For now, he faces no formal campaign restrictions, and he remains highly competitive in polls. But his sentencing on the New York convictions is approaching, on July 11, the other cases are still looming, and the Constitution and U.S. law have clear answers for only some of the questions that have arisen and may still arise.

Others could bring the country into truly uncharted territory, with huge decisions resting in the hands of federal judges.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-investigation-conviction.html

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