The felon ex-President keeps striking out in tryinmg get rid of his criminal conviction…..
And the guy has several other criminal and civil legal woes….
Including a ‘Gag’ order on this case…
A US appeals court late on Thursday declined to interfere with a lower court decision to keep Donald Trump’s already-decided criminal case, over hush money paid to an adult film star, in state court, dealing another blow to the former US president’s bid to move the case to federal court.
On 29 August, nearly three months after he was convicted in the first-ever criminal trial of a US president, Trump asked US district judge Alvin Hellerstein to move the case from New York state court in Manhattan to federal court, arguing the trial violated his constitutional rights.
Trump, the Republican nominee for president in the 5 November election, said that if the case were moved, he would ask the federal court to dismiss it altogether because jurors at trial saw evidence of his official acts as president.
He said that violated the US supreme court’s landmark decision finding presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for official acts.
Hellerstein denied that request on 3 September, finding that the case dealt with “private, unofficial acts, outside the bounds of executive authority”. Trump asked the second US circuit court of appeals to put that decision on hold while it considered the merits of his appeal.
A three-judge panel at the second circuit denied Trump’s request, citing Judge Juan Merchan’s delay of Trump’s sentencing date to 26 November from 18 September. Merchan wrote that he wanted to avoid the unwarranted perception of a political motive….
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