Overview

• A three-judge Second Circuit panel will convene Wednesday in Manhattan to consider Trump’s appeal to transfer his May 2024 hush money conviction for falsifying business records
• His legal team argues that payments intended to influence Stormy Daniels were covered by presidential immunity and belong under federal jurisdiction
• Officials in Trump’s Justice Department have filed in support of moving the case, while the Manhattan district attorney’s office insists the matter remain in state court
• U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein and trial judge Juan Merchan both rejected earlier bids to shift the case or toss the conviction on immunity grounds
• If the Second Circuit upholds the state verdict, Trump’s lawyers plan to seek review by the U.S. Supreme Court