
Left: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks during a news conference on Feb. 22, 2024, in New York (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II). Right: Former President Donald Trump speaks after meeting with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at their headquarters on Jan. 31, 2024, in Washington (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik).
New York City prosecutors on Thursday morning rubbished a recent series of efforts by Donald Trump to move his hush-money case to federal court as both “untimely” and procedurally off-base.
In a 5-page letter motion, a team of appellate attorneys for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office implored the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to reject the 45th president’s late Wednesday request to stay a lower court’s earlier rejection.
This week’s flurry of motions practice — back-and-forth; from both the state and the defense — caps several weeks of relative calm as the former president is scheduled to be sentenced for his 34-count felony falsification of business records convictions on Sept. 18.