Donald Trump is attempting to reverse court rulings in two of the many politically charged cases involving the former president . Friday Trump filed a notice that hes appealing a ruling that prevented him from moving the New York criminal case against him involving hush money payments to federal court . Trump has pleaded not guilty to counts of falsifying business records to conceal the reimbursement of hush . money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels . He is set to go to trial in Manhattan in March . Earlier this month US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein denied Trumps request to move the state case to federal . court after finding the alleged criminal conduct was not related to his role as president . Trump launched a Hail Mary bid relying on the recent report from special . counsel John Durham that criticized the FBIs TrumpRussia probe to revive the sprawling RICO lawsuit he filed against Hillary Clinton Democratic National Committee several ex-FBI officials and more than two dozen other people and entities . The move was already on appeal at the th US Circuit Court of Appeals at the time of the appeal was already under way . Middlebrooks later ordered sanctions against the Trump attorneys who signed on to the case concluding that the RICO suit had no substance and legal support it lacked in substance . In his RICO case, he claimed there was a conspiracy among the Democrats and government officials to fabricate information tying him to Russia in order to undermine his campaign . The RICO Lawsuit . Trump claimed there were a conspiracy against him to fabricase . The lawsuit was to settle with the Democrats. He claimed that he had no factual allegations that were either knowingly false or made to him and that he was. The lawsuit. He said that the case. In his suit. He wrote that the lawsuit. It seeks to