How immunity could complicate Trump’s hush money conviction

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Former President Donald Trump asked a judge in New York this week to factor the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity into his hush money trial with the aim of having his conviction tossed out.

While the high court’s ruling that presidents have some immunity from criminal prosecution was related to a separate case in Washington, D.C., Trump’s attorneys plan to argue that the decision has bearing on his Manhattan trial.

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