The move comes after a jam-packed morning that already saw favorable character testimony from two U.S. senators and the Democratic lawyer behind the infamous dossier on Russian dirt on President Donald Trump being dismissed as a witness by the judge.

“I am saying we have been precluded from putting on a defense,” Ogrosky told Judge William Walls.

Ogrosky identified several areas in which he said Walls had faltered, including repeatedly instructing jurors on the issues outside the scope of the trial’s inquiry and preventing the defense from cross-examining government witnesses.

Walls was hearing arguments on the motion outside the presence of the jury as of noon today.