President-elect Donald Trump’s “legal expense” conviction, put on ice Tuesday until Trump leaves office, should be permanently dismissed in order to avoid getting in the way of the constitutionally mandated “orderly transition of power,” his lawyers argued in a filing Wednesday.

One day after Manhattan Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg forced the case to be kept on ice, Trump’s legal team filed a request for Democrat Judge Juan Merchan to dismiss the case.

“Continuing with this case would be uniquely destabilizing,” Defense attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, both of whom Trump nominated last week to top Department of Justice posts in his new administration, wrote seeking the judge’s permission to file a motion to dismiss. “Just as a sitting president is completely immune from any criminal process, so too is President Trump as president-elect.”

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