Dareh Gregorian

One person under consideration for the job is Trump adviser Kash Patel, who is also being considered to lead the CIA, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Trump's team wants the case dismissed, and the prosecution says it needs time to evaluate next steps.

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.

The president-elect said he'd chosen Todd Blanche, who represented him in his criminal trial earlier this year, for the No. 2 job in the Justice Department.

The message came after the Biden administration warned an attempt on Trump's life would be an act of war, the official said.

The president-elect had been scheduled to be sentenced later this month after being convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

Letting the conviction stand would threaten to "hamstring the operation of the whole governmental apparatus," lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove argued in a letter to the judge.

Letting the conviction stand would threaten to "hamstring the operation of the whole governmental apparatus," lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove argued in a letter to the judge.

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss say the former Trump attorney violated an agreement to stop trashing them publicly.

Donald Trump's attorneys are demanding the judge who presided over his New York hush money trial and conviction immediately throw out the case, saying it would be "uniquely destabilizing to the country" otherwise.