President-elect Donald Trump was convicted in May by a Manhattan jury on 34 counts of falsifying business records, which if upheld, could have cost him up to four years in prison.

The New York judge overseeing President-elect Trump's criminal hush money case on Tuesday granted a request by the defense and prosecution to pause the case in light of Trump's recent election win. Why it matters: The ruling is a win for Trump — the only president to be convicted of a crime — and the latest instance in which his electoral victory has ground the legal cases against him to a halt.

Judge Juan Merchan was scheduled to issue a decision Tuesday on whether the Supreme Court's broad presidential immunity ruling means Trump's 34 felony convictions must be tossed out. But the pause on the case until Nov. 19, which was made public Tuesday, means that ruling won't come this week.