The Supreme Court of the United States agreed on Wednesday February 28 to rule on the criminal immunity that Donald Trump claims to benefit from to avoid a trial over his attempt to annul the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The Supreme Court judges suspended the decision rendered earlier this month by the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Washington), which considered that no former president could claim “absolute immunity”.
Donald Trump, big favorite in the Republican primaries for the US presidential election in November 2024, is the first former US president to be criminally charged.
The former tenant of the White House seeks to prevent or at least delay the holding of a trial for his attempts to reverse the result of the presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden, including his role in the assault launched by his supporters against the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Three of the nine justices who sit on the United States Supreme Court were appointed by Donald Trump.
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