Lawyers for Donald Trump are telling a federal appeals court it should not speed up its consideration of whether the former president is immune from prosecution
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump told a federal appeals court on Wednesday that it should not speed up its consideration of whether
the former president is immune from prosecution, accusing federal prosecutors of trying to rush his 2020 election subversion case through before next year’s presidential election.
The issue is of paramount significance to both sides given the potential for a protracted appeal to delay a trial beyond its currently scheduled start date of March 4. Trump faces
charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election after he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, and he has denied doing anything wrong.
Special counsel Jack Smith, whose team has brought
two federal cases against Trump in Washington and in Florida, has sought to keep both on track while Trump has attempted to delay the proceedings — at one point even asking for the Washington prosecution to be
pushed back until 2026. A postponement until after the election would clearly benefit Trump, especially since, if elected president, he would have the authority to try and order the Justice Department to dismiss federal cases.
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The case will be put on hold while the former president further pursues his claims that he is immune from prosecution.
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old spanky up to his old ways again. he knows that once he gets to trial he's fair dinkum fucked.
the appeals court should just rule on it tomorrow just to spite the fraudy rapist, that way the SCOTUS will be the end of the road for his frivolous argument even if they don't decide to take this argument up.
i can just see the orange toddler raging at the appeals court afterwards on truth social. "those god damn deep state panels of 11'th circuit trump-hating judges with their trump-hating wives, and their crooked trump-hating clerks who all have trump derangement syndrome and hate me more than anybody else could ever know! politicized witch hunt, the likes of which we've never seen before! election interference!"