Overview

• Oral arguments in the 2nd Circuit on June 11 will decide whether Trump’s 34 felony convictions for falsifying business records are transferred from state to federal court
• The Justice Department’s amicus brief argues that the trial relied on evidence covered by presidential immunity and urges dismissal of the state verdict
• Emil Bove, Trump’s former deputy trial counsel, is nominated for a seat on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, and Todd Blanche serves as deputy attorney general
• Sullivan & Cromwell leads the president’s defense as he also prepares a June 24 appeal of the $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation judgment
• Progress in the Georgia election racketeering case remains stalled after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified from the prosecution