A judge “ignored key evidence” while refusing to transfer Donald Trump‘s hush money case to a federal court, his lawyers have complained.
The former president’s legal team are asking an appeal court to overrule the September 3 decision of federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, who refused to transfer the case.
They want the case transferred to federal court so that Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, can claim presidential immunity. This is their second time asking the appeal court to intervene after Hellerstein’s ruling.
Trump faced trial in New York City on 34 counts of falsifying business records for $130,000 of hush money payments made to former adult film actor Stormy Daniels.
Daniels was paid in the run up to the 2016 election to keep secret an alleged affair she had with Trump a decade earlier. Trump denies any sexual involvement with Daniels.
On May 30, a jury convicted him on all 34 counts.
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