On Wednesday, Former President Donald Trump asked a New York appeals court for emergency relief to stop the criminal hush money trial scheduled to begin on April 15 so he can appeal a lower court's ruling on presidential immunity and have the judge recused from the case.
These court filings are the latest in what has been a blitz of actions by Trump at the appeals court this week to try to stop the trial before its scheduled start.
Earlier this week, Trump's legal team asked the appeals court to delay the trial so he can challenge a gag order stopping the former president from making statements about witnesses, family members of the judge, prosecutors and jurors. Trump's lawyers also argued that the trial cannot take place in Manhattan because of pretrial publicity. Both times, the requests to take emergency steps to delay the trial were swiftly denied.
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