As President Donald Trump focuses on global trade deals and dispatching troops to aid his immigration crackdown, his lawyers are fighting to erase the hush money criminal conviction that punctuated his reelection campaign last year and made him the first former — and now current — U.

What Happened: The appeal was heard in Manhattan by a three-judge panel, NPR reports. It stems from Trump's effort to transfer his case to federal court under a law that allows such shifts if the charges relate to official duties performed in office.

President Trump's challenge to his felony hush money conviction in New York should be heard in federal court, an attorney for the president argued Wednesday.