Former President Donald Trump’s defense team on Thursday was dealt a setback in its bid to take its case over a trial judge’s gag order to the New York Court of Appeals, as a Manhattan appeals court upheld the admonition handed down in the ex-president’s business fraud trial.

Lawyers for Trump last month filed an Article 78 petition seeking to vacate limited gag orders and associated contempt fines issued against the defendant and his counsel during the New York attorney general’s business fraud case.