The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money trial denied the president-elect’s bid to vacate his guilty verdict on presidential immunity grounds.
"Defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment and verdict is denied," Judge Juan Merchan wrote in a ruling Monday.
Merchan handed down the decision after he also denied Trump's argument that he's already protected by presidential immunity because of his election win.
Trump's attorneys had argued the indictment and the verdict should be thrown out in light of a Supreme Court ruling issued weeks later that created a new standard for presidential immunity.
Merchan instructed attorneys on both sides to file their letters about the issue publicly and with redactions.
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