Court of Appeals denies Trump's request to urgently postpone his impending criminal trial in New York. The judge rejected the request in a one-line ruling late Monday afternoon without explanation.
The move came exactly a week before the first trial of a former president is scheduled to begin. Trump's lawyers filed the challenge as a lawsuit and invoked a provision of New York law known as Section 78. A complaint under Section 78 allows litigants, whether in an ongoing legal battle or otherwise, seek redress for an allegedly illegal state or local government action.