The lawyer for Stormy Daniels is trying to get Donald Trump’s co-lead defense lawyer pushed off the “hush-payments” case, and Trump’s attorney is firing back, telling the New York Law Journal late Wednesday that he’s written to the judge to complain that Daniels’ lawyer has engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.

Both lawyers reportedly are also levying formal complaints against each other with the grievance committee that oversees attorney ethics in Manhattan.

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