The unprecedented request could provide immunity to future president-elects.
Republican presidential candidate former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference at the Washington Hilton on June 24, 2023, in Washington, D.C.In a filing Wednesday, defense lawyers argued that a New York judge lacks the authority to sentence the president-elect until Trump exhausts his appeal based on presidential immunity.
In asking the Supreme Court to intervene, Trump has presented the court with an unprecedented situation of a former president -- whose appointment of three justices cemented the court's conservative majority -- asking the country's highest court to effectively toss his criminal conviction less than two weeks ahead of his inauguration.
Republican presidential candidate former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference at the Washington Hilton on June 24, 2023, in Washington, D.C.If adopted by the justices, Trump's argument about immunity for a president-elect could expand the breadth of presidential authority, temporarily providing a private citizen with the absolute immunity reserved for a sitting president.
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