An attempt by former President Donald Trump‘s legal team to remove his New York felony case to federal court weeks ahead of his scheduled sentencing hearing has been rejected on Friday on technical grounds.
In a case brought forward by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Manhattan jury in late May convicted Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to subvert the 2016 presidential election by obscuring “hush money” payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, with whom he allegedly had an affair approximately one decade earlier.
The former president, who denies that an affair took place and claims all of his court cases are part of a Democrat-led “witch hunt,” has argued that the Supreme Court‘s recent ruling on presidential immunity, which grants immunity for some official acts by sitting presidents, means that his convictions should be thrown out.
On Thursday, a notice of removal for what Trump’s team called the “zombie” New York case was filed in U.S. …