FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Almost two years after a Democrat-elected prosecutor secured a conviction against then-candidate Donald Trump, a New York appeals court could decide soon on the appeal of the Manhattan felony conviction.

“There is no upside for the courts to string this along. So, we could see a ruling soon,” said Dan Backer, counsel for the watchdog group Coolidge Reagan Foundation, who co-wrote an amicus brief filed Monday and first shared with The Daily Signal.

The brief, filed in the First Department Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, calls for reversal of Trump’s conviction. 

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, secured a 34-felony count indictment against Trump, alleging that he falsified business records regarding supposed hush money payments to former porn star

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