The judge responsible for the case against the former US president Donald Trump (2017-2021) for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election On Friday he rejected that the former president is protected by presidential immunitywhich allows the business to continue.

The judge, Tanya Chutkan, wrote in an order that “former presidents enjoy no special conditions in their federal criminal liability.”

Trump’s legal team had argued as much The former president cannot be tried for events that occurred while he was still president and was therefore protected by presidential immunity.

Chutkan rejected that argument, allowing the case to move forward. The former president’s lawyers will appeal the decision, which could delay the trial, scheduled for March 4.

Trump is accused in Washington DC of conspiring to defraud the United Statesconspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and attempted obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.

Prosecutors determined that after losing the November 3, 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, then-president began a conspiracy to “reverse legitimate results” of the presidential election with false allegations of election fraud and multiple devious strategies.

The former president is also involved in three other criminal cases: one for electoral interference in the state of Georgia, another in Florida for taking classified papers from the White House when he left power, and another in New York for irregular payments to the porn actress. . Stormy Daniels to silence a past “affair” they had during the 2016 campaign.

The issue of presidential immunity, which Trump’s defense has indicated it would seek to invoke in the rest of the criminal casescould reach the country’s Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, the former president continues to lead the polls to secure the Republican nomination for the 2024 elections, in which he hopes to face Joe Biden again. (JO)