Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein has rejected Trump’s request for him to intervene and move his election interference case (also known less accurately as the hush money case) from that mean awful judge in New York.
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. (AP)
🎶Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust (yeah) 🎶
As far as I can tell, Trump has only one Hail Mary pass left. (related to this particular case)
Hellerstein sidestepped a defense complaint that Trump’s state court trial had been plagued by “bias, conflicts of interest, and appearances of impropriety,” writing that he “does not have jurisdiction to hear Mr. Trump’s arguments concerning the propriety of the New York trial.”
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which prosecuted Trump’s case, declined comment. Earlier Tuesday, the office sent a letter to the trial judge, Juan M. Merchan, objecting to Trump’s effort to delay post-trial decisions in the case while he was seeking to have the U.S. District Court in Manhattan step in.
Merchan is expected to rule soon on two key defense requests:
- Trump’s call for the judge to delay his Sept. 18 sentencing until after the November election,
- [Trump’s] request that the judge overturn his conviction and dismiss the case in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Merchan has said he will rule Sept. 16 on Trump’s motion to overturn the verdict.
Tick tock, Donnie!
I hope that with these two dates approaching (Sept 16 and Sept 18) Trump is as nervous as a good shitting peach pits, as my old boss liked to say.
