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A big win.
However, the District Court judge should have ruled this way, but as a Clinton appointee he ignored Supreme Court precedent.
Now, the Second Circuit has told him to get it right.
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However, the District Court judge should have ruled this way, but as a Clinton appointee he ignored Supreme Court precedent.
Now, the Second Circuit has told him to get it right.
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.
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The appeals court panel said Hellerstein’s ruling failed to "consider whether certain evidence admitted during the state court trial relates to immunized official acts or, if so, whether evidentiary immunity transformed."
Trump's lawyers argued that former presidents have a right to be tried in federal court for charges related to their time in office.
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Appeals court hands Trump legal win, orders review of hush money case over presidential immunity
A federal appeals court said a lower court must reconsider President Donald Trump’s bid to move his hush money case from state court to a federal court.
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