The president’s lawyers argued that a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity justified moving an appeal of his conviction in Manhattan to U.S. jurisdiction.

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.

Federal appeals court judges suggested Wednesday they may be willing to move President Donald Trump’s appeal of his 34-count criminal conviction from state to federal court, a move that could make it easier to throw out the only felony conviction against Trump—and all but erase the president’s felony charges.