Politico reports:
President Donald Trump has hired the elite white-shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell to appeal his criminal conviction in the Manhattan hush money case, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The most prominent member of Trump’s new legal team is Robert Giuffra, the firm’s co-chair. Also working on the case will be four other Sullivan & Cromwell attorneys, all of whom are former Supreme Court clerks: James McDonald, Morgan Ratner, John Wall and Matthew Schwartz.
During the presidential transition, Giuffra was under consideration to be Trump’s pick for attorney general and was said to have had the backing of Boris Epshteyn, an influential Trump legal adviser.
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