Federal prosecutors issued a 150-page rebuttal to Bob Menendez’s attempt to dismiss his bribery conviction, telling the judge that the evidence against the former Democrat senator is “overwhelming,” Politico reported Thursday.

The filing came in response to his attorneys’ motion last month to vacate the conviction on the basis of the “speech or debate” clause of the Constitution that protects lawmakers. His lawyers argued that evidence shown in the trial should not have been revealed to the jury, such as testimony from two of his own aides.

Prosecutors, in their filing to U.S. District Court Judge Sidney Stein, said the evidence “was not merely sufficient to prove every count, it was overwhelming,” they wrote.

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