Humiliation for Trump as judge blocks third desperate attempt to drag Stormy Daniels conviction out of New York
A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s latest attempt to move his New York hush-money criminal case to federal court. The decision matters because a federal venue could have offered another route for challenging the state-court conviction.
US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said Trump’s request did not present new or legally sufficient grounds for transfer and that he had not shown good cause or diligence. It was Trump’s third unsuccessful effort to move the case, in which a New York jury convicted him on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records linked to a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
- Judge rejects Trump’s third bid to move case federally
- Court cites insufficient new legal grounds
- Conviction involves 34 falsified-records counts