Appeals court hands Trump legal win, orders review of hush money case over presidential immunity
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....
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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. JORDAN INVESTIGATES DAUGHTER OF JUDGE IN NY V. TRUMP CASE OVER HER WORK FOR KAMALA HARRIS, DEMOCRATS Trump's legal team cited a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. "President Trump continues to win in his fight against Radical Democrat Lawfare," a spokesperson for Trump's legal team said in a statement. "The Supreme Court’s historic decision on Immunity, the Federal and New York State Constitutions, and other established legal precedent mandate that the Witch Hunt perpetrated by the Manhattan DA be immediately overturned and dismissed." U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, had twice denied Trump's requests to move the case, once after his March 2023 indictment and another after Trump's May 2024 conviction. The high court subsequently ruled that presidents and former presidents cannot be prosecuted for official acts. Trump pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree but was found guilty after an unprecedented six-week criminal trial in New York. Fox News Digital has reached out to Trump's lawyers. FLASHBACK: TRUMP SLAMS MERCHAN, DEMOCRATS, WHO 'JUST WANT TO SEE IF THEY CAN GET A POUND OF FLESH' AMID FAILED CASES Hellerstein's ruling, the center of Thursday's decision, said Trump's lawyers had failed to meet the high burden of proof for changing jurisdiction and that Trump’s conviction for falsifying bus…