Trump trial split screen: Hush money case resumes with David Pecker testimony as Supreme Court hears immunity claim

• The New York criminal trial of Donald Trump is set to resume with testimony from former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.
• Lawyers for Trump are also set to argue at the Supreme Court that Trump is immune from criminal prosecution in his federal election interference case.
• Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is battling four pending criminal cases while campaigning to unseat President Joe Biden.

The New York criminal trial of Donald Trump is set to resume Thursday with more testimony from David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer and a key player in the former president's alleged hush money scheme.

At the same time that Pecker is testifying, lawyers for Trump are set to argue before the Supreme Court that he cannot be prosecuted in a federal election interference case in Washington, D.C., because he was president at the time the alleged crimes took place.

The courtroom clash underscores the extent to which Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is weighed down by his copious legal battles while campaigning to unseat President Joe Biden.

Trump is required to be in Manhattan Supreme Court for his criminal trial. Judge Juan Merchan denied Trump's request to skip at least part of the trial day Thursday to attend the Supreme Court oral arguments.

The trial, which began in earnest Monday with opening statements, is expected to last six weeks.

Trump is charged with falsifying business records as part of a scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election by buying the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels, who says she had sex with Trump while he was married years earlier.

In his testimony Tuesday, Pecker detailed how he agreed to help Trump's 2016 campaign by