Appeals court hands Trump legal win, orders review of hush money case over presidential immunity
A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered a lower court to reconsider a decision to keep President Donald Trump’s ongoing case to erase his hush money conviction in state court. The three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a federal judge failed to consider “important issues relevant” to Trump’s request to move the New York case to federal court, where he can seek to have it thrown out on presidential immunity grounds. Judges Susan L. Carney, Raymond J. Lohier Jr. and Myrna Pérez made their ruling after hearing arguments about the case in June. Trump’s legal. Continue reading Appeals court hands Trump legal win, orders review of hush money case over presidential immunity