Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, failed to convince U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to dismiss a defamation case against her client before he was expected to testify. On Thursday, Habba made the motion to dismiss after attorneys for E. Jean Carroll rested their case against the former president. Carroll sued Trump for defamation after he denied raping her. “Without the jury present, Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba moves for a judgment throwing out Carroll’s case: She says ‘President Trump is entitled a judgment as a matter of a law’ because Carroll ‘failed to establish a causal link’ bet…