Lawyers for an attorney who was representing Hillary Clinton’s campaign when he fed information to the FBI ahead of the 2016 election attempted on March 31 to get a judge to dismiss the case. Michael Sussman, the attorney, was charged in September 2021 with making a false statement to the bureau because he allegedly denied representing a client when he met with then-FBI lawyer James Baker and fed evidence purportedly linking then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s company to a bank in Russia. A grand jury brought the indictment as part of the investigation into the origins of the probe into Trump and his campaign being conducted by Special Counsel John Durham. In court on Thursday, Sussman’s lawyers told U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee, that he should toss the charge. “To our knowledge—and the special counsel hasn’t found otherwise—never before has as an individual provided a tip to the government …