Donald Trump’s lawyers and the Manhattan district attorney’s office have agreed to delay activity in the hush money case until November 19 to give the president-elect’s lawyers time to make new arguments on how his election victory impacts the case.

The request comes one day before the former Trump attorney is supposed to turn over property and financial records to the two election workers he defamed.

Eileen Sullivan has been covering the defamation case against Rudolph W. Giuliani since December, and reported from Washington. Rudolph W. Giuliani’s lawyers asked a federal judge on Wednesday for permission to withdraw as his counsel,

As the threat of civil contempt hangs over their client’s head, attorneys for Rudy Giuliani told a judge they want to stop representing him in a case involving a $148 million debt Giuliani owes to two election workers he defamed in 2020.

A federal judge on Thursday postponed a December trial date for a man charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, after the man pointed to President-elect Donald Trump’s promises to pardon such defendants or otherwise end their prosecutions.

A federal judge on Thursday agreed to delay a trial set for next month for a US Capitol riot defendant, saying there is a “real possibility” that President-elect Donald Trump could pardon him after taking office next year.