An attorney for President Donald Trump argued to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit Wednesday that the appeal for his felony business records conviction in New York should be moved to the federal court system, pointing to the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity reached shortly after the jury’s ruling in the case. 

“The federal officer is entitled to a federal forum, not to have those arguments heard in state court,” attorney Jeffrey Wall told the three-judge panel, two of whom are appointees of former President Barack Obama and the other an appointee of former President Joe Biden, reports ABC News.

“And if that’s true for a normal federal officer in a normal criminal prosecution, it certainly ought to be true for the president of the United States and for what we can all recognize is an anomalous one of its kind prosecution.”

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