US judge rejects Trumps bid to switch hushmoney case to federal court

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News Source : Al Jazeera English

News Summary

  • Donald Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records in 2024.
  • Trump has appealed his conviction in the years since the trial, and simultaneously has attempted to move the case to federal court.
  • On Friday, Judge Alvin Hellerstein declined Trump's petition for a third time, ruling that the president's arguments were “neither new nor legally sufficient” The case centres on a $130,000 payment Trump allegedly made through his fixer, Michael Cohen, to buy Daniels’s silence, after she claimed she had an affair with the Republican leader while he was married.
United States President Donald Trump has once again lost a bid to transfer his criminal hushmoney case from state to federal court, in a bid to have his felony conviction dropped.

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