A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday slammed the brakes on the Central Park Five's defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump until his claim of immunity is decided in the appellate court, a clear win in the meantime for Trump as far as delay is concerned.

The order from recently minted Chief U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone, a Barack Obama appointee, was just one line in length, but a multi-page footnote spelled out her reasoning.

As Law&Crime has reported, Trump's private attorneys had argued that, although Beetlestone declined to throw out the case , the president is being "chilled by meritless litigation" and was entitled to a stay of the lawsuit pending his immunity-centered appeal in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Beetlestone previously ruled that the Commonw

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