A federal judge on Friday once again spurned Donald Trump’s effort to erase his hush money conviction, rejecting the president’s bid to move the state court case to federal court. Judge rules that payment and ‘engaging in a cover-up of an embarrassment are not subsumed in presidential immunity’ Key points and original sources are listed below.

• A federal judge on Friday once again spurned Donald Trump’s effort to erase his hush money conviction, rejecting the president’s bid to move the state court case to federal court.S1

• Judge rules that payment and ‘engaging in a cover-up of an embarrassment are not subsumed in presidential immunity’S2

• Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein reiterated his earlier finding against Trump, saying that the reasons Trump cited for renewing his request were “neither new nor legally sufficient.”S3

• President Trump had sought to move his state court conviction to a federal jurisdiction, though a judge has blocked that effortS4

• Trump loses bid to transfer New York hush money case to federal courtS5

• It is the third time the judge has blocked Trump from having the U.S. District Court in Manhattan seize control of the case from the New York courtS6