What appeals, post-conviction motions, or ongoing legal challenges remain for each felony conviction or dismissal involving Trump as of November 2025?
Executive summary
As of November 2025, the main surviving legal avenues tied to Donald Trump’s criminal and civil matters center on his 34-count New York hush‑money conviction — where he has appealed and won procedural wins on venue/federal‑court transfer and presidential‑immunity arguments — and a patchwork of civil appeals and dropped or paused prosecutions elsewhere (notably Georgia charges dropped Nov. 26, 2025). The 2nd Circuit ordered reconsideration of moving the New York case to federal court and Trump filed direct appeals challenging admission of evidence under the Supreme Court immunity ruling; outside New York, Georgia’s prosecutor dropped charges and at least one civil penalty against Trump was recently upheld on appeal [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. Hush‑money conviction: an ongoing, multi‑track appeals fight
Trump remains aggressively appealing his May 2024 conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records in Manhattan. His lawyers have filed appellate briefs arguing trial evidence included “official acts” shielded by the Supreme Court’s presidential‑immunity decision and seeking to overturn the conviction on that basis [2]. Separately, a 2nd Circuit panel in November 2025 ordered a lower federal court to reconsider whether the case should be moved from New York state court to federal court so a judge — not the state jury — can decide immunity questions, giving Trump another procedural path to vacate the verdict [1] [5]. Those two tracks — direct state‑court appeal and a federal‑court immunity route — are active and complementary in his strategy [6] [7].
2. What Trump’s teams are arguing and what opponents say
Trump’s brief claims the New York trial was “fatally marred” by admission of evidence tied to his official acts and faults the presiding judge; his lawyers frame the appeal as a constitutional immunity defense [2]. New York prosecutors counter that evidence challenged as “official acts” either concerned unofficial conduct or public records and that lower courts properly admitted it; prosecutors told the Supreme Court earlier that the trial evidence was properly handled [8]. The appellate courts so far have not resolved the merits — they have reopened procedural avenues to press those immunity claims [1] [5].
3. Procedural posture and what remains to be decided
As of November 2025, the key unresolved questions are: whether a federal judge will be allowed to hear immunity arguments after the 2nd Circuit’s order to reconsider transfer [1]; the outcome of Trump’s written appeals challenging admission of evidence in the New York appellate process [2]; and whether any reversal would require a new indictment or retrial in state court if the conviction is vacated (available sources do not mention the specific reindictment mechanics beyond general statements) [9].
4. Georgia case: dismissal and limited remaining avenues
The Georgia racketeering/election‑interference prosecutions were removed from former District Attorney Fani Willis and then — after a search for a successor prosecutor — the new prosecutor Pete Skandalakis dropped the remaining charges on November 26, 2025 [3]. That dismissal closed that chapter for now; available sources do not mention an ongoing prosecution or a surviving appeal by state prosecutors after the Nov. 26, 2025 dismissal [3].
5. Federal cases and the Special Counsel/DOJ posture
Reporting shows Special Counsel Jack Smith began winding down federal election‑interference and classified‑documents prosecutions after Trump’s 2024 victory and that some federal appeals were dismissed or abandoned as Department of Justice policy limits prosecuting a sitting president; the Office of Special Counsel appealed some dismissals but later chose to wind down the cases [3] [10]. Available sources do not list active federal criminal appeals by prosecutors against Trump as of November 2025 beyond the state New York matters and selected civil enforcement actions [3].
6. Civil litigation and ancillary appeals
Separately, Trump lost an appeal over sanctions in a 2022 civil suit against Hillary Clinton and James Comey: an appeals court in late November 2025 upheld nearly $1 million in penalties and refused to reinstate his dismissed lawsuit, showing that some civil penalties remain enforceable and appealable [4] [11]. New York’s civil fraud judgment and other civil challenges have their own appeal dockets — for example, state civil penalties have been the subject of appellate review with mixed results [12].
7. What to watch next — timeline and stakes
Watch for the 2nd Circuit’s formal orders on the federal‑transfer reconsideration and any district‑court immunity proceedings that might follow; separately, monitor the New York appellate briefs attacking conviction evidence [1] [2]. Any successful immunity ruling or transfer could either vacate the conviction or require reexamination of whether evidence should have been presented to the jury [7]. Conversely, appellate rejections will leave the Manhattan verdict intact and sustain civil and appellate enforcement of penalties [2] [4].
Limitations: this briefing relies on the supplied reporting and legal summaries; available sources do not provide exhaustive docket entries or every filing date for every appeal, and they do not state post‑November 26, 2025 prosecutorial actions beyond the Georgia dismissal and the cited appeals [3] [4].