Pedestrians pass in front of Trump Tower in New York City on Dec. 19, 2018. Photographer: Allison Joyce/Bloomberg 

A Bronx Supreme Court administrative judge on Friday ordered President Donald Trump to appear for a video deposition in a case involving an alleged 2015 assault of protesters outside Trump Tower by employees of the Trump Organization.

In her order, Bronx Supreme Court Administrative Judge Doris Gonzalez wrote that constitutional arguments about the president's vulnerability to prosecution are not relevant in this case.

"The only issue presented in these motions is whether the President's testimony is necessary at trial," Gonzalez wrote.

Questions about Trump's control over his employees are relevant to the case, Gonzalez wrote.

"President Trump's relationship with the other defendants is now central to plaintiffs' prosecution of their claims under the theory of respondeat superior," Gonzalez wrote. "As such, his testimony is indispensable."

Jury selection in the case is currently set to begin Thursday. It's not clear when Trump will be deposed or if the trial date will be pushed back.

Ben Dictor of Eisner Dictor, who is representing the plaintiffs, including Efrain Galicia, said Gonzalez' decision affirms the principle that no one is above the law.

"This is a case about Mr. Trump's responsibility as an employer of individuals who were authorized to use force in the course of their duties as employees to him and to the Trump Organization and to the Trump campaign," Dictor said.

Dictor said he'll present evidence at trial showing that Trump authorized and condoned his employees' conduct that day, when employees, including then-Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller, allegedly got into a physical altercation with protesters.

Lawrence Rosen of LaRocca Hornik Rosen Greenberg, who is representing Trump in this case, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In her reasoning, Gonzalez cited a 2018 decision that allowed Summer Zervos' defamation lawsuit against Trump to go forward.

Trump appealed a trial court's ruling in the Zervos case, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Clinton v. Jones, which said a president may be sued in federal court, did not say a president could be haled into state court on a civil matter.

But the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division for the First Department rejected Trump's argument, green-lighting that lawsuit.

Dictor said he looked forward to deposing Trump as he would a witness in any other case.

"The date of trial is not automatically postponed. … Mr. Trump is under an order from the court to be deposed, on videotape, before the commencement of the trial," Dictor said.

No motion asking the court to push back the trial date had been filed by press time, according to the New York State courts' online docket.

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