His effort’s throw out his 34 count criminal conviction in New York is up for review and the Federal judge doesn’t seem inclined to touch it (This is his Second look this…He hasn’t change3d his mind)….
Others may forget….
But?
Donald J. Trump has NOT…
And it stays that way….
And the DA that arrested and got him convicted?
He WON Re-Election last November….
A federal judge appeared poised to again reject President Donald Trump’s bid to erase his hush money conviction, slamming his lawyers Wednesday for legal maneuvers he said amounted to taking “two bites at the apple.”
Directed by an appeals court to take a fresh look at the matter, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein was at turns inquisitive and incredulous in nearly three hours of arguments in Manhattan federal court. Sparring with Trump lawyer Jeffrey Wall throughout, he suggested the whole exercise was moot because the president’s legal team had waited too long after the historic verdict to seek federal court relief.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in November ordered Judge Hellerstein to reconsider his earlier decision to keep the New York case in state court instead of moving it to federal court, where Trump can seek to have it thrown out on presidential immunity grounds.
A three-judge panel ruled Hellerstein erred in his September 2025 ruling by failing to consider “important issues relevant” to Trump’s request to move the case to federal court. But they expressed no view on how he should rule.
Trump, a Republican, did not attend Wednesday’s arguments.
Hellerstein heard from Wall and Steven Wu, a lawyer from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which prosecuted the case and wants it to remain in state court.
Hellerstein thanked both men for their “very provocative arguments” and said he would issue a ruling at a later date….
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Hellerstein, who was nominated by Democratic President Bill Clinton, has twice denied Trump’s requests to move the case. The first was after Trump’s March 2023 indictment; the second was the post-verdict ruling at issue at Wednesday’s hearing.
In that ruling, Hellerstein said Trump’s lawyers had failed to meet the high burden of proof for changing jurisdiction and that Trump’s conviction for falsifying business records involved his personal life, not official actions that the Supreme Court ruled are immune from prosecution….
Note….
Trump IS trying to move the state court conviction to a Federal court where he thinks he can get over with ‘he’s the President’ , even crimes BEFORE he was President should not count and be erased….
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