Judge rejects Trump’s newest bid to fight hush money conviction in federal court

A federal judge again denied President Donald Trump’s legal effort to get his New York state criminal hush money case moved to federal court, a move that could have made it easier to reverse his conviction.

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District Judge Alvin Hellerstein that Trump’s cited grounds were “neither new nor legally sufficient.”

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Hellerstein has previously denied Trump’s request to move the case, but a federal appellate court ruled last fall that the district court judge must reconsider in light of the landmark presidential immunity ruling in July 2024 from the US Supreme Court.

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