On Tuesday morning, a federal appeals court ruled that 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity in the January 6 and 2020 election case brought forth against him.

According to NBC News, the three-judge panel of the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that there was no basis for Trump’s claim of presidential immunity. Trump is expected to appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
 

The appeals court judges wrote in the ruling that three separate immunity arguments made by Trump’s team were rejected "both as a categorical defense to federal criminal prosecutions of former Presidents and as applied to this case in particular," according to CNBC.

"For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant," the panel wrote.

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