More than a year and a half after a 12-member jury found him guilty of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump has formally called on a state appeals court to toss the verdict that made him the first-ever criminally convicted president.
In a midnight filing, attorneys for the president revived familiar arguments from Trump’s previous attempts to dismiss the case, which is still moving through state and federal courts as the president looks to the Supreme Court to vindicate him, once again.
