The case is being reviewed by a Appeals Court for Presidential Immunity….
The Appeal court will probably limit any the ex-President would have facing criminal charges…
But?
The law stop’s eveything while a ppeal is going on and the courts have NOT moved too quickly as the Justice Dept. wants and Trump does NOT….
The New York DA case will probably be the first criminal case set to begin next month….
The judge overseeing former President Trump’s election interference case suspended his March 4 trial Friday, saying she will set a new trial date after an appeals court weighs whether the case should be tossed because of his claims of presidential immunity.
The brief order from U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan makes official what she had already previewed — that she would need to push back the trial date to accommodate time lost to review Trump’s appeal.
The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals heard Trump’s arguments Jan. 9, expressing skepticism over his claim that former executives enjoy broad criminal immunity from prosecution.
Still, the court has yet to issue a formal ruling on the matter, prompting frustration from legal observers noting the overall delay it will cause in what had been Trump’s fastest-moving federal criminal case.
The delay comes after special counsel Jack Smith sought to leapfrog the appeals court, asking the Supreme Court to immediately weigh the issue.
But the high court declined, leaving the matter to first be reviewed by a three-court panel of the D.C. circuit.
Trump’s team is arguing he can only be tried by prosecutors if he is first tried and convinced by the Senate through the impeachment process.
His team argued just the opposite, however, when Trump was facing his second impeachment before the upper chamber for his actions related to Jan. 6….