Setback for Trump as Supreme Court ruling fails to save him in bid to overturn ‘hush money’ conviction

‘Paying hush money to an adult film star or engaging in a cover-up of an embarrassment are not subsumed in presidential immunity,’ a New York District judge says

A federal judge has again blocked President Trump's bid to erase his hush money conviction in New York.

Pool / Getty Images Donald Trump has lost his latest long-shot bid to overturn his criminal conviction, with a federal judge delivering a brutal takedown of the president’s arguments along the way. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected Trump’s latest attempt to erase the so-called “hush money” convi

Judge Alvin K Hellerstein reiterated his earlier finding against the US president, saying that the reasons he cited for renewing his request were “neither new nor legally sufficient.”

A federal judge on Friday once again spurned Donald Trump’s effort to erase his hush money conviction, rejecting the president’s bid to move the state court case to federal court.

A federal judge on Friday once again spurned Donald Trump’s effort to erase his hush money conviction, rejecting the U.S. president’s bid to move the state court case to federal court and have it dismissed on presidential immunity grounds.

It is the third time Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has blocked Trump from having the U.S. District Court in Manhattan seize control of the case from the New York court where he was tried and convicted.

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein reiterated his earlier finding against Trump, saying that the reasons Trump cited for renewing his request were “neither new nor legally sufficient.”

A federal judge again declined to erase President Trump's hush money conviction on Friday, noting that the president's arguments were "neither new nor legally sufficient." Why it matters: The loss is another blow to the president, who has sought to get the conviction of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records

President Donald Trump loses again in bid to erase his hush money conviction  AP News

President Trump had sought to move his state court conviction to a federal jurisdiction, though a judge has blocked that effort

New York judge says president’s arguments were ‘neither new nor legally sufficient’

Judge rejects Trump’s newest bid to fight hush money conviction in federal court  CNN

It is the third time the judge has blocked Trump from having the U.S. District Court in Manhattan seize control of the case from the New York court

President Donald Trump loses again in bid to erase his hush money conviction  Toronto Star

A federal judge has again blocked President Donald Trump’s bid to erase his hush money conviction in New York