Judge Repeats Ruling: Bribing A Porn Star Is Not Official Act

Common sense shows its face again! Associated Press (via Daily Kos) reporting:

A federal judge on Tuesday swiftly rejected Donald Trump’s request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, spurning the former president’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 Hellerstein’s ruling—just hours after Trump’s lawyers asked him to weigh the move—upends the Republican presidential nominee’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 Court’s presidential immunity ruling.

Andrew Weissmann spoke to Lawrence O'Donnell Tuesday night, and kudos to both of them for not laughing the whole way through.

LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: Andrew, let's begin with Judge Hellerstein today, the federal judge in New York, who's the first one to actually issue a ruling based on the Supreme Court's immunity decision, and he said has absolutely nothing to do with Stormy Daniels.

ANDREW WEISSMANN: Yeah, well, a judge who I used to appear in front of used to say, I have two words for you, de-nied.

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