![]() ![]() ![]() Circuit for now.Īs in Washington, Trump’s filing Monday in Atlanta is replete with ominous warnings that the case against him could lead to routine prosecutions of former presidents. Supreme Court last month to take up the immunity issue in the federal case on an expedited basis, but the justices declined to do so, leaving the issue at the D.C. McAfee’s decision on the matter is expected to result in pretrial appeals to the Georgia Supreme Court or the U.S. Previously denied Trump’s claim of immunity from criminal prosecution for his acts as president, an unprecedented decision that led to the current appeal. Circuit Court of Appeals will consider his immunity argument as well. Trump is planning to attend oral arguments Tuesday in Washington, where a three-judge panel of the D.C. The immunity issue is the trickiest test yet for Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee, who must grapple with the historic constitutional question as it winds its way simultaneously through the federal courts. ![]() Trump’s motion claiming presidential and federal immunity came among a raft of other filings in Georgia that also mirrored his arguments in Washington, including an argument that heĬan’t be prosecuted because of his acquittal in a 2021 Senate impeachment trial. The arguments echo Trump’s parallel attempt to scuttle the federal charges against him in Washington, D.C., where he’s facing similar conspiracy charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith. ![]()
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