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Donald J. Trump was turned down when he asked an appeals court — again — to stave off his prosecution on charges that he faked business records to cover up a sex scandal.
Jonah E. Bromwich, William K. Rashbaum and
Lawyers for Donald J. Trump have spent this week seeking to stave off the former president’s trial on charges that he covered up a sex scandal.
They tried again Wednesday. Again, they failed.
In Mr. Trump’s latest last-minute bid to delay a trial that starts Monday, he filed a civil action in an appeals court against the judge in the case, Juan M. Merchan. It sought to delay the trial while the appeals court reconsidered several of the judge’s rulings.
A single appellate court judge, Ellen Gesmer, promptly rejected Mr. Trump’s request. Mr. Trump can now have his action heard by a full panel of five appellate court judges, but it would be nearly impossible for the court to act before the trial begins.
The episode underscored Mr. Trump’s increasing desperation to delay the trial, and his scattershot approach to doing so.
Stalling is one of the former president’s favorite legal strategies, in the Manhattan case and all his many legal entanglements. But even for Mr. Trump, it was an audacious move: taking legal action against a judge and burying an appeals court in long-shot delay tactics.
Nearly a dozen legal experts contacted for this article strained to recall any other defendant filing three emergency appeals in three days. Most called it unprecedented; one called it “silliness.” And at this rate, with five days to go before jury selection and a smattering of other legal issues still unresolved, Mr. Trump might not be done.
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