"I think it's insanely prejudicial," Habba told US District Judge Lewis Kaplan Wednesday morning.
AdvertisementUnder longstanding Supreme Court precedent, Kaplan said, Trump has a legal right to be represented at his trial either personally, or by lawyers standing in for him.
The trial, which began Tuesday, is focused on two statements Trump made defaming Carroll in 2019.
Carroll previously took Trump to trial last year, where a jury found him liable for sexually abusing her and defaming her in a different set of statements.
Three days later, Habba asked for a one-week delay of the trial.
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