President Donald Trump has had fairly good luck in the courts as far as his personal legal issues are concerned. The last big hurdle would be getting his "hush money" conviction overturned, and it looks like progress is being made on that front.

According to The Hill, an appeals court will now work on deciding the fate of Trump's bid to overturn his conviction, "acknowledging the extraordinary prosecution coupled with the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision breaks new ground."

Trump's massive immunity win in the U.S. Supreme Court last year has proven crucial for his legal defenses, and it just might play a role in reversing his 34 counts.

The president and his allies have long claimed that DA Alvin Bragg's case against Trump was just another witchhunt.

What's going on?

The fate of whether or not the conviction will be overturned is now in the hands of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.

The Hill noted:

The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit must decide whether to open a path for Trump to attempt to throw out his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records by letting him advance his case in a federal forum, instead of New York state courts.

The move comes in the wake of Trump attempting to have the conviction overturned previously, but to no avail.

"It seems to me that we got a very big case that created a whole new world of presidential immunity," said Judge Myrna Pérez, an appointee of former President Biden, "and that the boundaries are not clear at this point."
The Hill added:

The president’s lawyers concede he is not immune from the 34 felonies themselves, but they contend prosecutors improperly included immunized evidence during the trial, such as a White House aide’s testimony and Trump’s social media posts.

“Federal officers get prosecuted all the time for things that have nothing to do with their job, but if a state or local attorney says, ‘We’re going to put into evidence things that have to do with the way you do your job,’ then they’ve triggered a uniquely federal interest," Trump lawyer Jeffrey Wall said.

At this point in time, Trump has to prove that the defense is plausible, and the court panel will likely not conclusively decide how immunity applies in this case.

Manhattan DAs are MAD

Steven Wu, appellate chief at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, didn't appear to be happy with Trump's effort to have the conviction overturned, again.

"It is worse, not better, for questions of resolving disputes between federal and state courts that they first went to the state court fully briefed — not just immunity, but also recusal and sought a stay of the sentence,” Wu said.

He added, "He did so in a deliberate attempt to get state court relief there, and only then came to this court, or rather to the district court, to seek federal court relief."

Only time will tell if Trump and his lawyers are able to make headway on this case. It would be massive if they did.