Donald Trump on Monday appealed a judge's ruling that he answer questions under oath in a civil probe by New York's attorney general into the former U.S. president's business practices.

The appeal, which was expected, will delay Attorney General Letitia James from obtaining testimony from Trump and his two oldest children, Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump, possibly for months.

Justice Arthur Engoron of a state court in Manhattan had on Feb. 17 said James had a "clear right" to question the Trumps in her probe into the Trump Organization, after her office had found "copious evidence of possible financial fraud."

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