FILE - Judge Juan M. Merchan poses in his chambers in New York, March 14, 2024. Donald Trump will make history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges when his hush money case opens with jury selection. The process to choose 12 jurors, plus six alternates, will begin with Merchan bringing scores of people into his courtroom to begin weeding out people for potential biases or other reasons they cannot serve. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
FILE - Former President Donald Trump arrives for a press conference at Manhattan criminal court, March 25, 2024, in New York. Trump will make history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges when his hush money case opens with jury selection. The case will force the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to juggle campaigning with sitting in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks to defend himself against charges involving a scheme to bury allegations of marital infidelity that arose during his first White House campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
FILE - Michael Cohen arrives at New York Supreme Court Oct. 25, 2023, in New York. Donald Trump will make history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges when his hush money case opens with jury selection. Cohen, a Trump loyalist turned critic, is expected to be a key prosecution witness, as he was the one who orchestrated the payoffs. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
FILE - Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg listens at news conference in New York, Feb. 7, 2023. Donald Trump will make history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges when his hush money case opens with jury selection. Bragg's office has said that Trump was trying to conceal violations of federal campaign finance laws — an unusual legal strategy some experts have said could potentially backfire. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
FILE - Adult film actress Stormy Daniels arrives at an event in Berlin, on Oct. 11, 2018. Donald Trump will make history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges when his hush money case opens with jury selection. The allegations focus on payoffs to two women, Daniels, a porn actress, and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said they had extramarital sexual encounters with Trump years earlier, as well as to a Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have a story about a child he alleged Trump had out of wedlock. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)