The former chairman of USA, Donald Trumpasked a Washington appeals court to dismiss a federal complaint against him for attack on the Capitolclaiming presidential immunity.

Trump is accused of inciting the violent attack on the Capitol January 6, 2021 and is prosecuted for several crimes, the most serious of which is conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, which can lead to up to 55 years in prison.

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The trial is scheduled for March 4, 2024 in the federal capital, one day before ‘Super Tuesday’, the big day of the primaries, but now it could be postponed because the appeals court will have to study the issue of immunity.

In a brief filed Saturday evening in federal court in Columbia: Trump asks that a lower court’s decision be overturned who rejected the immunity claims of his team of lawyers at the time.

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The request comes two days after the United States Supreme Court declined to urgently consider whether the former president (2017-2021) has immunity in this federal case, as requested by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

In summary proceedings before the Court of Appeal, Trump’s legal team points out that the impeachment is unconstitutional because presidents cannot be criminally prosecuted unless they are first convicted by the Senate.

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“Under our system of separation of powers, the judiciary cannot review a president’s official actions,” Trump’s lawyers say.They claim the former president was performing his “official duties” on the day of the events and oversaw the integrity of the 2020 election.

The presidential immunity argument has become a recurring weapon for Trump’s lawyers, who are trying to extend the trial and delay the start date of this federal case as much as possible. (JO)