On November 19, 2024, US President-elect Donald Trump attended the sixth test flight launch ceremony of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, USA.
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President-elect Donald Trump asked a Georgia appeals court on Wednesday to effectively end a criminal case related to his attempt to overturn his defeat in the state’s 2020 presidential election.
Trump’s lawyer Steven Sadow Ask the Court of Appeal in a document affirmed that it lacked jurisdiction over the case and then directed a trial-level state court in Atlanta to “summarily dismiss” the indictment against the president-elect.
Sado argued that the Georgia court lost jurisdiction over the case because Trump won the 2024 election.
other Trump’s defense attorney On Tuesday, he made similar arguments, asking a New York state court judge to dismiss the hush-money criminal case against him.
Under the U.S. Constitution, “a sitting president is completely immune from state or federal prosecution or any criminal prosecution,” Sadow wrote in the Georgia filing on Wednesday.
Sadow wrote that although Trump won’t be sworn in until Jan. 20, the appeals court should “investigate its jurisdiction” to continue hearing appeals “before the inauguration.”
“This investigation should result in this court finding that neither this court nor the trial court has jurisdiction to entertain any further criminal prosecution against President Trump because it is unconstitutional for the State of Georgia to continue to indict and prosecute President Trump,” he wrote.
The criminal case had been put on hold before the election as Trump sought in the appeals court to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her romantic relationship with a prosecutor on his team .
In a separate statement Wednesday, Sadow noted that special counsel Jack Smith recently dropped two federal criminal indictments against Trump because of his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the November election. .
The federal cases are related to Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 national election and Trump’s retention of classified government documents after leaving the White House in January 2021.
Smith’s move leaves only two criminal cases pending against Trump: in Fulton County, Georgia, and in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Trump was convicted in Manhattan in May of all 34 counts of falsifying business records related to allegations that his then-personal attorney, Michael Cohen, made a secret to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election. (Stormy Daniels) paid $130,000.
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