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Former President Donald Trump tried again in a new court filing to get his criminal prosecution in New York moved to federal court. Former President Donald Trump tried again in a new court filing to get his criminal prosecution in New York moved to federal court, arguing the alleged crimes "took place while the president was in office." Trump's attorneys accused the Manhattan district attorney's office, known by the acronym DANY, of "deceptively mischaracterizing and ignoring the applicable facts and body of law" by seeking to keep the case in state court . "According to DANY, the crux of its case was a purportedly 'illegal scheme that was largely per Pet rated before defendant became [P]resident.' Such an alleged scheme, albeit nonexistent, could only violate federal , not state, campaign finance laws, as made clear by both the federal jurisprudence and the New York State election board,'" the defense filing said. MORE: Trump seek...

Former President Donald Trump is expected to file a motion to move his Georgia indictment to federal court, which experts said could have some advantages. Former President Donald Trump may soon seek to have his Georgia election interference case removed to federal court. Attorneys for Trump notified Georgia state court in Fulton County on Thursday that they may file a removal motion, according to a new court filing. Trump would be following in he footsteps of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and five other defendants charged in the sprawling racketeering case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. MORE: Mark Meadows, all remaining defendants plead not guilty in Georgia election case The potential advantages for Trump in doing so, attorneys and law professors said, would be the possibility of a more sympathetic jury pool and the potential delays such a move could cause. The law allows federal officers facing state charges to have the prosecution moved to...

Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill's statue was removed Monday morning, Richmond’s deputy chief administrative officer, Robert Steidel, said The removal of Richmond, Virginia's last standing city-owned Confederate statue was completed Monday but the fight over where it will be relocated continues. Richmond's deputy chief administrative officer, Robert Steidel, said the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill was removed Monday morning. It will be moved into storage until the administrative process is finished for it to be donated, as planned, to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Steidel said. Two years ago, amid protests after the murder of George Floyd, the city of Richmond, which was the Confederate capital for most of the Civil War, began removing all of its Confederate monuments. Since then, more than a dozen such memorials across the city have been taken down. But as ABC affiliate WRIC reported, the removal of Hill's statue was complicated becaus...