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Judge rejects Trump's request to move Stormy Daniels hush-money case into federal court
ABC News via Yahoo ^ | July 19. 2023 | Aaron Katersky

Posted on 07/19/2023 2:20:07 PM PDT by Reno89519

A federal judge in New York has rejected former President Donald Trump's request to move his hush-money criminal case into federal court.

"Trump has failed to show that the conduct charged by the Indictment is for or relating to any act performed by or for the President under color of the official acts of a President," Judge Alvin Hellerstein wrote in his ruling Wednesday.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election.

He had argued the case belonged in federal court because Trump reimbursed his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, who made the payment to Daniels, while Trump was in the White House.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had argued that the hush payment had nothing to do with Trump's presidential duties.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alvinhellerstein; coloroflaw; crookedjudge; harassment; hushmoney; michaelcohen; persecution; pornstar; stormydaniels; trump
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To: Bishop_Malachi

Apparently the distinctio is that Trump paid the money as a private citizen not as the president.


21 posted on 07/19/2023 3:18:41 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Scratch that.


22 posted on 07/19/2023 3:18:51 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Reno89519

It’s New York options are few when your the target.


23 posted on 07/19/2023 3:26:02 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: MileHi

Kaplan informed the jury that “an unwanted peck on the cheek” is sexual assault. Meanwhile Biden sustains a sexual assault on a toddler in front of the whole world, no doubt leaving a trail of slime on her dress from his garden slug tongue.


24 posted on 07/19/2023 3:26:11 PM PDT by sopo
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To: Reno89519

From the explanation for the ruling in the excerpt, it sounds as if Trump’s lawyers filed this with the wrong arguments.


25 posted on 07/19/2023 3:33:06 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: Reno89519
Alvin Hellerstein is a Rapin' Bill stooge, and a Senior Moment stooge [90 years old].

A two-fer. His law clerk spiked his applesauce sippy cup, and wrote the "opinion" for ol' Alvin.

26 posted on 07/19/2023 3:33:19 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Reno89519
Aren't they charging him with influencing a Federal election?
27 posted on 07/19/2023 3:35:10 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: Reno89519
It was a trumped up charge, but Trump ran is mouth, now faces paying lots more money.

Anyone who isn't buying the Narrative on Trump is seeing the federal clown judges revealed as the partisan stooges that they are.

Which by extension makes most if not ALL the federal judiciary partisan stooges - since they're not speaking out about the stoogery.

28 posted on 07/19/2023 3:35:46 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: newzjunkey
I don’t think it was such a ridiculous move. In fact, I believe Trump’s attorneys for exactly what they wanted out of a different part of this ruling:

Hellerstein also endorsed the Manhattan district attorney's theory of the case that elevated the falsification of business records to felonies because, prosecutors said, Trump allegedly falsified the records in furtherance of another crime.

"Trump can be convicted of a felony even if he did not commit any crime beyond the falsification, so long as he intended to do so or to conceal such a crime," Hellerstein said.

This ruling is patently absurd. The criminal charge in this case only applies if the defendant falsifies records to cover up a crime, but this judge claims the prosecution doesn’t have to demonstrate that a crime was actually committed?

More importantly, this judge should be disbarred and removed from the bench just for acting outside his legal authority. A Federal judge has no business making a decision to remand a case to a state court, then render an opinion on a matter that comes entirely under the purview of STATE law.

29 posted on 07/19/2023 3:47:07 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: Reno89519

Trump needs to start requesting the exact opposite court action that he prefers. This way, the petty and spiteful #Never-Trump judges will inadvertently act toward his benefit.


30 posted on 07/19/2023 4:20:54 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Ingtar
Aren't they charging him with influencing a Federal election?

Yes and no. Hellerstein also endorsed the Manhattan district attorney's theory of the case that elevated the falsification of business records to felonies because, prosecutors said, Trump allegedly falsified the records in furtherance of another crime.

Try to make sense of that.

31 posted on 07/19/2023 4:21:58 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Reno89519

Which makes it even more ridiculous.


32 posted on 07/19/2023 4:45:53 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: napscoordinator

When does it stop?

Imagine a hobnailed boot stamping on a human face...
FOREVER.

They will hound him into the grave and besmirch his
legacy so that no one else will dare challenge their
supremacy.

Storm clouds on the horizon...


33 posted on 07/19/2023 4:53:10 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Eleutheria5
But this is a question of federal campaign finance law

Which is a federal issue.

34 posted on 07/19/2023 5:07:37 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Exactly. The judge’s opinion was a straw man argument by a Clintonista looking to curry favor with the regime and get a higher appointment. The basis for federal intervention is obvious.


35 posted on 07/19/2023 5:20:27 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Reno89519

The deep state has spent years corrupting the judicial system. After all it is where everything comes to its ultimate conclusion. So it was highest priority.


36 posted on 07/19/2023 5:58:27 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Reno89519

The losses keep piling up.


37 posted on 07/19/2023 6:42:30 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: CatOwner
The losses keep piling up.

Has Trump won anything since his 2016 win. In court he has repeated lost.

38 posted on 07/19/2023 6:45:41 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: Reno89519

Three Supreme Court justices.
Lots of great Supreme Court decisions.


39 posted on 07/19/2023 7:59:08 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Reno89519

Stormy had to pay him.
The attorney went to jail.

He’s had lots of great wins.


40 posted on 07/19/2023 7:59:49 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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