Yesterday, Federal District Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected the Malignant Loser's request to move the "hush money" election interference case from the Manhattan court to Federal court. It was the second time the Malignant Loser's stalling tactic failed in Federal court. Of course, the Malignant Loser is appealing the ruling if only to stall the process more. The Associated Press reports:
"U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein’s ruling — just hours after Trump’s lawyers asked him to weigh the move — upends the Republican presidential nominee’s plan to move the case to federal court so that he could seek to have his conviction overturned in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling.
Trump’s lawyers challenged the decision, filing a notice of appeal late Tuesday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump and his lawyers 'will continue to fight to move this Hoax into federal court where it should be put out of its misery once and for all,' his campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, said in a statement.
Hellerstein, echoing his denial of Trump’s pretrial bid to move the case, said the defense failed to meet the high burden of proof for changing jurisdiction and that Trump’s conviction for falsifying business records involved his personal life, not official actions that the Supreme Court ruled are immune from prosecution.
In a four-page ruling, Hellerstein wrote that nothing about the high court’s July 1 ruling affected his previous conclusion that hush money payments at issue in Trump’s case 'were private, unofficial acts, outside the bounds of executive authority.'” (our emphasis)
In a perfect world, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals should promptly dismiss the appeal, but it has a number of judges appointed by the Malignant Loser, so we'll see how it's handled on appeal.
