President Donald Trump urged New York’s highest court on Wednesday to throw out the remaining findings in the state’s civil fraud case against him, escalating his long-running legal battle with Attorney General Letitia James and seeking to wipe away the case entirely.
In a 119-page filing submitted to the New York Court of Appeals, Trump argued that the case was driven by “political hostility” and should be dismissed in full, even after a major appellate ruling last year already eliminated the roughly $460 million financial penalty against him.
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