Trump seeks to overturn criminal conviction, citing Supreme Court immunity decision

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Trump seeks to overturn ********* conviction, citing Supreme Court immunity decision

Supreme Court says Trump has some immunity

The Supreme Court says Trump has some immunity. What happens now?

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Donald Trump is trying to leverage a Supreme Court decision holding that presidents are immune from federal prosecution for official actions to overturn his conviction in a New York State ********* case.

A letter to the judge presiding over the New York case is not yet public. It was filed Monday after the Supreme Court’s landmark holding further slowed the former president’s ********* cases. 

A spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg declined to comment when asked about Trump’s effort to overturn the conviction, which was first reported by

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Trump’s ********* case in New York is the only one of four against him to go to trial. On May 30, a unanimous jury concluded Trump was guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an effort to cover up reimbursements for a “hush money” payment to an ****** film star. Trump signed off on falsifying the records while he was in the White House in 2017.

Monday’s Supreme Court decision extended broad immunity from ********* prosecutions to former presidents for their official conduct. But the issue of whether Trump was engaged in official acts has already been litigated in his New York case.

Trump sought in 2023 to move the case from state to federal jurisdiction. His lawyers argued that the allegations involved official acts within the ****** of his presidential duties.

That argument was rejected by a federal judge who wrote that Trump ******* to show that his conduct was “for or relating to any act performed by or for the President under ****** of the official acts of a president.”

“The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the matter was purely a personal item of the president — a cover-up of an embarrassing event,” U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein wrote. “Hush money paid to an ****** film star is not related to a president’s official acts. It does not reflect in any way the ****** of the president’s official duties.”

Trump initially appealed that decision, but later dropped it. 

His case went to trial in April, and soon after the jury’s unanimous decision finding him guilty, Trump vowed to appeal the conviction.

Trump is scheduled to be sentenced July 11. Prosecutors were expected to file a sentencing recommendation Monday. That filing has not been made public.

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Graham Kates

Graham Kates is an investigative reporter covering ********* justice, privacy issues and information security for CBS News Digital. Contact Graham at *****@*****.tld or *****@*****.tld

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