A federal judge on Tuesday swiftly rejected Donald Trumpā€™s request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, spurning the former presidentā€™s attempt at an end-run around the state court where he was convicted and is set to be sentenced in two weeks.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellersteinā€™s ruling ā€” just hours after Trumpā€™s lawyers asked him to weigh the move ā€” upends the Republican presidential nomineeā€™s plan to move the case to federal court so that he could seek to have his conviction overturned in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Courtā€™s presidential immunity ruling.

Hellerstein, echoing his denial of Trumpā€™s pretrial bid to move the case, said the defense failed to meet the high burden of proof for changing jurisdiction and that Trumpā€™s conviction for falsifying business records involved his personal life, not official actions that the Supreme Court ruled are immune from prosecution.

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    3 months ago

    My girlfriend is a law processor and said nothing about what has gone on is normal and the judge absolutely would be doing exactly as you describe if it were literally anyone else.

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        3 months ago

        My understanding is that the judge is proceeding the slow, careful way he is to prevent the inevitable appeal from having any chance of succeeding.