The case will remain in state court in Manhattan, where a trial is scheduled for March 25.
Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his legal team in a Manhattan court on April 4, 2023, in New York. | Seth Wenig/Pool via AP PhotoNEW YORK — The Manhattan district attorney’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump will remain in state court instead of being moved to federal court, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.The felony charges from the Manhattan D.A.
In his written decision Wednesday, however, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein found that “[t]he evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the matter was a purely a personal item of the President — a cover-up of an embarrassing event.” Hellerstein also dismissed Trump’s concerns that the indictment was the work of a “politically motivated” district attorney, Alvin Bragg, writing “Trump fails to show, however, that the grand jury lacked a rational basis for the indictment.”
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