Trump would be the sixth of 19 defendants in the case to seek to move their case to federal court.
in their alleged efforts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results.
If the case were moved to federal court, potential jurors would be drawn from the suburbs and exurbs beyond Atlanta — areas where Democrats are far less heavily represented. In the New York case, Trump entered a not guilty plea on April 4 to 34 counts of felony falsification of business records related to an alleged"hush money" payment made days before the 2016 election.. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein wrote in his July 19 ruling that he didn't believe payments made to a former Trump attorney — records of which are central to allegations in that case — were tied to Trump's service as president.
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