US President-elect Donald Trump's lawyer, Steve Sadow, filed a petition in a Georgia appeals court to dismiss the case for interference in the 2020 presidential election, citing the defendant's presidential immunity.
As noted in the document, “On November 5, 2024. Donald Trump once again became president-elect, and on January 20, 2025. he will be inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States” and “the president-elect is fully immune from all federal and state charges and prosecution."
In August 2023 Georgia grand jury indicts Trump, some of his lawyers, aides, campaign officials and local Republicans on charges of meddling in the 2020 election. The indictment alleges that Trump, as part of a criminal ring, made efforts to alter the results of the 2020 presidential election. This group, according to prosecutors, operated in Georgia, as well as in other states - Arizona, Michigan, New Mexico, Wisconsin and the metropolitan area of the District of Columbia.
On December 3, Trump's attorneys filed a motion in New York court asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit alleging falsification of financial documents in the payment of former porn actress Stormy Daniels. The lawyers of the newly elected president are calling for the indictment to be dismissed and the sentence to be overturned.