The legal and political landscape in the United States shifted once again after former President Donald Trump submitted a major appeal seeking to overturn his New York conviction. His filing directly challenges Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s high-profile case, describing it as a politically motivated prosecution rather than a fair legal process.
Trump’s legal team filed the extensive appeal earlier this week, calling the case “the most politically charged prosecution in modern American history.” The filing argues that the decisions made during the trial violated fundamental constitutional protections and relied on legal theories that experts across the political spectrum had questioned from the beginning.
The original New York case centered on 34 counts of falsifying business records, tied to payments allegedly made years before…