The president was found guilty in state court in May 2024. The federal judge who denied Trump’s previous requests to move the case said he would issue a decision soon.
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A federal judge tangled with an attorney for President Donald Trump on Wednesday and appeared skeptical of his arguments in a bid to erase Trump’s 2024 hush-money conviction.
Trump’s personal attorneys at the time, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, made a strategic and fatal mistake in July 2024 by going to the trial judge for relief in the hush-money case following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling giving Trump immunity rather than going directly to federal court, Judge Alvin Hellerstein said at a hearing that lasted more than three hours in U.S. District Court in lower Manhattan.
President Trump waited "too long" after the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision to try and move his hush money case into federal court, a judge said Wednesday.
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President Donald Trump waited "too long" after the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 decision on presidential immunity to try and move his criminal hush money case from New York into federal court, a federal judge said Wednesday -- though he did not make a final decision on the matter.
Trump cannot pardon himself on a state conviction but his attorneys said his aim is to get the case into the federal appellate system and ultimately in front of the Supreme Court as quickly as possible.