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‘You wanted two bites with the apple’

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‘You wanted two bites with the apple’

A federal judge was skeptical of President Donald Trump’s argument to try to appeal his hush money conviction to federal court — after lawyers have already taken their shot in two other courts. Judge Alvin Hellerstein suggested that Trump’s lawyers missed their chance by first taking the US Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity to … Read more

NY Attorney General Challenges Acting US Attorney’s Authority to Investigate Trump Cases

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NY Attorney General Challenges Acting US Attorney’s Authority to Investigate Trump Cases

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors recently ran aground, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, Eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los Angeles were all serving illegally. Now, another federal judge is poised to consider an argument from New York Attorney General … Read more