A federal judge on Wednesday elected to return former President Donald Trump’s criminal case stemming from alleged “hush money” payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to New York state court.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York determined that Trump’s lawyers failed to show that the conduct charged by the indictment was performed by or for him “under color of the official acts of a President.”

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