{"id":22104,"date":"2023-12-31T20:35:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T02:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22104"},"modified":"2023-12-31T20:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T02:35:39","slug":"prosecutors-urge-appeals-court-to-reject-trumps-immunity-claims-in-election-subversion-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22104","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors urge appeals court to reject Trump\u2019s immunity claims in election subversion case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jack-smith-special-counsel-prosecutor-donald-trump-garland-e1fdb71cfc258bc2be48a8b890a9269b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Special counsel Jack Smith<\/a>&nbsp;urged a federal appeals court Saturday to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-jan-6-justice-department-special-counsel-f82dbd294cd7b963dd69f1ecdf90aded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reject former President Donald Trump\u2019s claims that he is immune from prosecution<\/a>, saying the suggestion that he cannot be held to account for crimes in office \u201cthreatens the democratic and constitutional foundation\u201d of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The filing from Smith\u2019s team was submitted ahead of arguments next month on the legally untested question of whether a former president can be prosecuted for acts taken while in the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Though the matter is now being considered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, it\u2019s likely to come again before the Supreme Court,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-january-6-justice-department-90b93eeb663ebaf67a2e0bc266390fa0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which earlier this month rejected<\/a>&nbsp;prosecutors\u2019 request for a speedy ruling in their favor holding that Trump can be forced to stand trial on charges that he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-january-6-justice-department-special-counsel-3d2b0cbb7e2a3648f7587094e8191f40\">apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014&nbsp;Special counsel Jack Smith&nbsp;urged a federal appeals court Saturday to&nbsp;reject former President Donald Trump\u2019s claims that he is immune from prosecution, saying the suggestion that he cannot be held to account for crimes in office \u201cthreatens the democratic and constitutional foundation\u201d of the country. The filing from Smith\u2019s team was submitted ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5256,1723,5604,25502,25503,3926,9175,1230,9656],"class_list":["post-22104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-appeal","tag-court","tag-dismissal","tag-election-case","tag-immunity","tag-prosecutor","tag-subversion","tag-trump","tag-urge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22106,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions\/22106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}