A judge denies Trump's request for immunity in the 2020 election lawsuit

 A judge denies Trump's request for immunity in the 2020 election lawsuit

A federal court has denied the former president Donald Trump's request to have the charges related to election meddling dropped because of "presidential immunity."

Attorneys for Mr. Trump have said that he was entitled to use his presidential powers to reject the 2020 results.

However, Judge Tanya Chutkan could not find any support in the law for the conclusion that the president would not be prosecuted after leaving office.

It is alleged that Mr. Trump attempted to fraudulently reverse his electoral loss.

Judge Chutkan wrote late Friday stating, "There is only one executive in charge of the United States at a time, whatever what immunity a sitting president may enjoy."

"That status does not offer a lifetime 'get out of jail free' pass."

"It does not grant him the right of God of kings to avoid criminal accountability by controlling his fellow citizens," the speaker said in reference to Mr. Trump's administration.

This is the first ruling by a US court establishing the possibility of prosecuting presidents in the same manner as regular citizens. The first US president to be charged with a crime is Mr. Trump, both as president and former.

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After the ruling, a representative for the Trump campaign informed CBS, the US partner of the BBC, that "President Trump intends to fight for America and Americans, especially challenging these wrongful decisions in the highest courts" and that "the corrupt left will fail."

Mr. Trump is charged with four felonies, one of which is conspiracy to defraud the United States, in connection with his purported attempts to avert his loss in the 2020 presidential contest.

He entered a not guilty plea. Jack Smith, the special counsel, is expected to start his presidential campaign in March of next year, coinciding with the start of the trial in Washington, DC.

Given that the former president has lately encountered many judicial defeats in the lawsuit, it is uncertain whether Mr. Trump's legal team would file an appeal of the most recent decision.

Judge Chutkan also denied Mr. Trump's request to see documents pertaining to the congressional inquiry into the 2021 US Capitol violence earlier this week.

In a November 27 decision, the Obama appointee referred to the endeavor as a "fishing expedition."

A gag order had previously been ordered by Judge Chutkan, who also turned down a request to have certain words in the indictment removed because Mr. Trump's attorneys felt they would bias the jury against him in the trial.

The former president is now involved in many legal disputes, one of which being a federal lawsuit in Washington, DC.

In addition, he is charged criminally for handling secret data and for allegedly making false accounting records regarding cash that were buried.

Mr. Trump, members of his family, and officials of the Trump Organization are being tried for civil fraud in his home state of New York.

The Trump Organization has already been found guilty of fraud by the case's judge.

The trial will decide the punishment; the prosecution is seeking commercial penalties against the Trump Organization and the Trump family in addition to a $250 million (£202 million) fine.