The debates will take place “the week of April 22”. A federal appeals court had dismissed on February 6 the criminal immunity invoked by the former Republican president.
Donald Trump is the subject of four separate criminal charges and if he were elected again, he could, once inaugurated in January 2025, order a halt to federal proceedings against him. The U.S. Supreme Court is partly satisfying Donald Trump by not allowing the appeal decision to come into force until it has made its own decision.