{"id":148348,"date":"2026-04-08T14:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/08\/pure-politics-trump-lawyers-in-briefs-urge-new-yorks-highest-court-to-upend-unprecedented-fraud-ruling\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:05:18","slug":"pure-politics-trump-lawyers-in-briefs-urge-new-yorks-highest-court-to-upend-unprecedented-fraud-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/08\/pure-politics-trump-lawyers-in-briefs-urge-new-yorks-highest-court-to-upend-unprecedented-fraud-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pure Politics’: Trump Lawyers, in Briefs, Urge New York’s Highest Court to Upend ‘Unprecedented’ Fraud Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump’s appeal, filed by a team at Sullivan & Cromwell, comes as his attorneys seek more discovery at the trial level following comments in which Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said he felt “coerced” into testifying against his onetime boss. Cohen told Law.com he stands by his comments.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s appeal, filed by a team at Sullivan & Cromwell, comes as his attorneys seek more discovery at the trial level following comments in which Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said he felt “coerced” into testifying against his onetime boss. Cohen told Law.com he stands by his comments.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s appeal, filed by a team at Sullivan & Cromwell, comes as his attorneys seek more discovery at the trial level following comments in which Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said he felt “coerced” into testifying against his onetime boss. Cohen told Law.com he stands by his comments. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trump’s appeal, filed by a team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/legal-news-bFoVcK.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}