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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.S. pres­i­dent found guilty of a crime.

On Wednes­day, that fight land­ed in a fed­er­al ap­peals court in Man­hat­tan, where a three-judge pan­el heard ar­gu­ments in Trump’s long-run­ning bid to get the New York case moved from state court to fed­er­al court so he can then seek to have it thrown out on pres­i­den­tial im­mu­ni­ty grounds.

It’s one way he’s try­ing to get the his­toric ver­dict over­turned.