The appellate court last week rejected the defense’s last-minute effort to delay the trial just days before it began.
On Thursday, Trump’s lawyers dropped a lawsuit they filed against Engoron as part of that challenge.
Political Cartoons View All 1202 ImagesThe appellate court has yet to rule on the latest appeal.
Trump's lawyers argued that Engoron had “no rationale or legal authority” to impose what they described as “the corporate death penalty."
“Perhaps most alarming is (the court's) incomprehension of the sweeping and significant consequences of its own ruling,” Trump's lawyers said in their appeal Friday, describing Engoron’s ruling as an “overbroad directive that sows confusion and chaos in its implementation.”
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