NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s quest to erase his criminal conviction heads to a federal appeals court Wednesday. It’s one way he’s trying to get last year’s hush money verdict ...

Trump’s legal path is not easy. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled twice — before and after the Supreme Court ruling — that his case could not be transferred from state to federal ...

Trump was convicted last year in Manhattan state court of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to an adult film star. His lawyers argued to judges on the 2nd US ...

Trump's lawyers are fighting to erase his New York hush money criminal conviction that made him the first former — and now current — U.S. president found guilty of a crime ...

Trump’s Justice Department — now partly run by his former criminal defense lawyers — backs his bid to move the case to federal court. If he loses, he could go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Trump’s hush money criminal conviction returns to the limelight Wednesday as his attorneys plead with an appeals panel to move the New York case to federal court.

In the weeks leading up to the 2016 election, Trump’s then-attorney, Michael Cohen, paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 for the rights to her story, one of several so-called hush money schemes the ...