Donald Trump asks appeals court to intervene in last-minute bid to delay hush-money criminal case
Donald Trump is asking a New York appeals court to reverse a judge's gag order and move his hush-money criminal trial out of Manhattan in an eleventh-hour bid for a delay just a week before it is scheduled to start
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump asked a New York appeals court on Monday to reverse his gag order and move his hush-money criminal trial out of Manhattan in an eleventh-hour bid for a delay just a week before it is scheduled to start.
A judge in the state's mid-level appeals court was to hold an emergency hearing Monday afternoon after the former president’s lawyers filed paperwork challenging Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan's pretrial rulings.
The documents themselves were placed under seal, but a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press they pertained to Trump's gag order — recently expanded to prohibit comments about judge's family — and the Republican's desire to move the trial out of heavily Democratic Manhattan.
The person was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.
