Overview
- A three-judge 2nd Circuit panel remanded Trump’s bid to move the New York case to federal court, saying it cannot be confident the lower court applied the proper analysis.
- The ruling instructs U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein to closely evaluate whether evidence used at trial related to official presidential acts and whether Trump showed good cause for a late removal effort.
- The panel expressed no view on the ultimate outcome and left it to the district judge to seek further briefing or hold a hearing.
- Trump argues the Supreme Court’s immunity decision bars jurors from hearing official-act evidence, pointing to testimony from former White House aides and presidential communications during his first term.
- The case continues on dual tracks, with the federal removal fight revived and a separate appeal of the 34-count state conviction proceeding in New York.