‘A likelihood of bribery, jury tampering, or of physical injury or harassment’: At first criminal trial of a former president, judge keeps juror names protected — and warns Trump about gag order

Left: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg attends senator press conference on illegal guns arrests and seizure on the plaza in front of Police Headquarters on December 4, 2023. Lev Radin/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) Dec. 4, 2023./Right: Former President Donald Trump leaves Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Left: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg (Lev Radin/Sipa via AP Images). Right: Former President Donald Trump outside of court (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer).

Donald Trump’s lawyers urged the Second Circuit one more time to issue an administrative stay and “freeze legal proceedings” as they attempt to make the case for taking the hush-money prosecution out of acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s hands and putting it in federal court, so they can raise lingering presidential “immunity and preemption defenses” there.

The 12-page reply on Thursday took aim at Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg (D) and his office’s response from earlier in the day, claiming that prosecutors once again displayed their “local hostilities” toward Trump by dismissing out of hand the defense’s so far unsuccessful removal bid.

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