The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, asked the judge presiding over President Trump’s hush-money case to deny the 45th president’s  request to toss out the guilty verdict and the indictment following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on presidential immunity. 

“This Court should reject defendant’s request to vacate his conviction and dismiss the indictment on the basis of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity,” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo and four of his colleagues wrote in their motion made public on Thursday. “Contrary to defendant’s arguments, that decision has no bearing on this prosecution and would not support vacatur of the jury’s unanimous verdict (let alone dismissal of the indictment) even if its reasoning did apply here.”