According to Trump, the president must have full legal immunity so that he can carry out his duties without “fear of punishment”.
Former President of the United States Donald Trump asked the nation’s highest court on Monday to temporarily block a lower court’s decision on Trump’s immunity from prosecution.
An appeals court ruled last week that Trump has no immunity from prosecution in a case involving attempts to overturn a 2020 election loss. At the time, Trump lost the election to a sitting president For Joe Biden.
According to Trump’s defense, he is entitled to immunity from prosecution because Trump was president at the time of the events. However, the Court of Appeal considered that there are no grounds for such an interpretation either in precedents, history or the Constitution.
– Organizing a months-long criminal trial against President Trump at the height of the election season will radically interfere with President Trump’s ability to campaign against President Biden, Trump’s lawyers wrote in the request to the news channel CNN’s by.
Trump has repeatedly insisted that the president must have full legal immunity to carry out his duties without “fear of punishment.”
NOW: The trial schedule is unclear
The US Congress building was seized on January 6, 2021. The purpose of the seizure was to prevent the confirmation of the result of the presidential election and to keep Trump, who lost the election, in power.
As a result of the events, criminal charges have been brought against Trump for trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Trump’s appeal puts his fate in the hands of the nine-judge US Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court decides not to take the case into consideration, the ruling of the Court of Appeal will automatically remain in effect.
Trump’s trial for trying to sway the 2020 presidential election was originally scheduled to begin on March 4. However, according to CNN, the dispute over Trump’s immunity from prosecution has been decided by a federal judge by Tanya Chutkan to postpone the start of the trial. of the New York Times according to at this stage it is not clear when the trial can be held. According to the newspaper, much now depends on how quickly the judges of the Supreme Court act.
The US presidential election will be held in November.