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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. A New York judge has denied a request to

pause this week scheduled sentencing for President-elect Donald Trump at his New York

hush money trial. Trump's lawyers were pushing

for the judge to reverse a decision what sets a Friday sentencing date on Trump's 34 felony

convictions in the case. Judge Juan Mershoun rejected Trump's efforts to throw out the verdict,

let him return to the White House. While the judge has indicated he's not inclined to impose

any jail time or any other criminal penalty.

It does mean Trump would be the first convicted felon ever to assume the U.S. presidency.

Lawyers for convicted, Proud Boys leader Henry Enrique Tario are renewing their request for a presidential pardon.

NPR's Kerry Johnson reports Tario has been serving a 22-year prison sentence.

D.C. juries convicted Enrique Tario and several other members of the far-right proud boys group of seditious conspiracy for their role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol four years ago.

Tario's lawyer says he's not an extremist, but rather a quote, proud American who believes in true conservative values.

The lawyers making a new appeal to President-elect Trump, who says he wants to pardonately

some of the defendants convicted in the Capitol riot. Tario's been held in special housing

units during his incarceration, limiting his interaction with other prisoners and his movements

outside a prison cell.

Tarios lawyer says that kind of isolation can lead to major mental health problems.

Kerry Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

President Joe Biden is in New Orleans, Louisiana today, serving his role as consular

in chief as residents of that city, try to recover from a deadly New Year's terror attack that

claimed the lives of 14 people. An army veteran apparently inspired by ISIS plowed his truck

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