A lawsuit against President Donald Trump filed by protesters who allege that the then-candidate’s security detail roughed them up in 2015 during a campaign speech is moving forward to trial in a Bronx state court and the plaintiffs want the president to testify.

But a lawyer for Trump argues that the president is not obligated to comply with the plaintiffs’ subpoena and that the survival of their case may hang on a pending ruling from a state appeals court as to whether or not plaintiffs sue a sitting president in state court.

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