A judge is expected to decide next week whether President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction in the New York hush money case will stand before a possible sentencing hearing on Nov. 26.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan — who had already delayed Trump’s sentencing for several months before the election — will decide Tuesday whether the conviction stands after the U.S. Supreme Court’s immunity ruling in July .

Trump’s defense team previously asked Merchan to dismiss the case after the high court’s ruling.

Prosecutors from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office told Merchan that the decision by the nation’s highest court was not related to Trump’s conviction on charges that he illegally paid money to keep women silent about alleged sexual encounters, then allegedly concealed the payments as legal fees during his tenure. 2016 campaign.

The judge said that if Trump’s motion to dismiss the case fails, “the law requires the imposition of a sentence after a finding of guilt, without unreasonable delay.”

That sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 26 at 10 a.m., but it won’t be necessary if the judge dismisses the case.

In late May, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all counts in his hush money case. Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records for disguising secret payments to an adult film actress as legal fees before the 2016 election. Under New York state law York, first-degree falsification of business records is a class E felony punishable by up to four years in prison.

In July, the United States Supreme Court ruled that presidents and former presidents have absolute immunity for actions related to major constitutional powers and presumptive immunity for official actions. The ruling says the president has no immunity for any unofficial conduct.

Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the election in both the popular vote and the Electoral College, handily winning what pollsters had predicted would be a close race. Trump had 72,993,733 votes as of Thursday, compared to Harris’ 68,351,712 votes, with a few million votes still to be counted, mostly in blue states. Trump received 312 votes in the electoral college, compared to 226 for Harris.

U.S. Justice Department prosecutors in Jack Smith’s office could close their two cases against Trump before Trump returns to the White House in January, under the department’s policy that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted , NBC News reported.

Trump also faces election interference charges in Georgia.