As President Donald Trump focuses on global trade deals and dispatching troops to aid his immigration crackdown, his lawyers are fighting to erase the hush money criminal conviction that punctuated his reelection campaign last year and made him the first former -- and now current -- U.

Trump’s legal team says Supreme Court would be ‘stunned’ by hush money case in New York’s hands - Appeals court judges are now wrestling with a ‘whole new world of presidential immunity’ after his con

The Big Law firm Sullivan & Cromwell is arguing that additional appeals for Trump's hush-money convictions should be heard in federal court.

The president’s lawyers argued that a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity justified moving an appeal of his conviction in Manhattan to U.S. jurisdiction.

Will there be another hush money trial against Trump after he leaves office? The possibility is raised by his pending appeal, which was the subject of a hearing Wednesday.

Lawyers for President Donald Trump argued before a federal appeals court Wednesday in a renewed bid to erase his felony conviction in the Manhattan hush money case, and the judges appeared open to moving the case from state court to federal court.

Five months after President Donald Trump was sentenced without penalty in the New York hush money case, his attorneys will square off again with prosecutors Wednesday in one of the first major tests of the Supreme Court’s landmark presidential immunity decision.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department is not happy with Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan's legal defense in their criminal case against her. According to The New York Times, prosecutors rejected her claim that she has immunity for acts carried out in her official capacity — an argument for which Dugan cited the Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v.

The judges in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals spent more than an hour grilling Trump's lawyer and the appellate chief for Manhattan district attorney's office, which prosecuted the case.

Judge Dugan's case rests on a "factually unsupported and inaccurate storyline" that ICE agents tried to "commandeer" a state courtroom, and a "manufactured version of judicial immunity," the DOJ says.

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