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- Alina Habba got into an argument with the judge in E. Jean Carroll's defamation trial Wednesday.
- The Trump lawyer asked to delay the case so the ex-president could go to his mother-in-law's funeral.
- The judge denied the delay, saying Trump's presence wasn't necessary.
Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba got into a testy exchange with the judge presiding over the former president's defamation case Wednesday, expressing visible frustration that the trial wouldn't be delayed for the funeral of his wife's mother.
"I think it's insanely prejudicial," Habba told US District Judge Lewis Kaplan Wednesday morning.