Trump gets new review of NY criminal case
Reuters
NEW YORK - A federal appeals court on November 6 [2025] said President Donald Trump deserves another chance to show that his New York sate hush money criminal case belonged in federal court, providing a fresh opportunity for the trump to try to erase his conviction. Trump has argued that presidents are immune from prosecution over their officials acts.
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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattans aid a federal district judge should have more closely reviewed whether a 2024 Supreme Court decision on president la immunity meant some evidence at trump's criminal trial should have been excluded.
..... A jury found Trump guilty in May 2024 on 34 charges of falsifying business records.
..... Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg accused Trump of trying to influence the 2016 president la election by covering up $130,000 of hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had a sexual encounter with Trump.
..... Trump denied Daniels' claim, and defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in the election.
..... The judge who oversaw the trial upheld the conviction but spared Trump jail and a fine.
..... In seeking to move the case to federal court, Trump said the Supreme Court's fining that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution over officials acts shield him from prosecution because jurors heard evidence fro his first White House term.
..... This included when he met with White House communications director Hope Hicks in the Oval Office in 2018, soon after news about the hush money payment became public, to discuss what he should tell the press. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected Trump's bid to move the case in September 2024, saying the case belonged in state court because in addressed trump's private behavior.
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Trump's lawyer Jeffrey Wall told the 2nd Circuit in June [2025] the criminal case fundamentally concerned federal campaign finance law, and prosecutors' emphasis on Hicks' testimony showed that Trump's official acts were central to their case.
..... Steven Wu, a lawyer for Bragg's office, countered that Trump's White House discussions about "unofficial behavior" did not "transform those private conversational about private behavior into evidence of official acts."