Ridiculous move by the lawyers but I get it. NY is obviously anti Trump and getting a fair trial will be monumentally difficult
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.