by William Upton at The National Pulse
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s defense attorney, Steve Sadow, is asking a Georgia appeals court to dismiss the RICO charges against his client, arguing a sitting president is immune from both state and federal prosecution. The move could bring to a close the third Democrat-backed prosecution of Trump, with only Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case remaining active.
“A sitting president is completely immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal,” Sadow writes in the filing submitted to the court Wednesday afternoon. “The Constitution forbids ‘plac[ing] into the hands of a single prosecutor and grand jury the practical power to interfere with the ability of a popularly elected President to carry out his constitutional functions.’”
The RICO case, brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, has been stuck in legal limbo since March when Judge Scott McAfee ruled that Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade had engaged in professional impropriety and ordered one of them to resign from the case. After Wade resigned from the prosecution, Trump’s legal team appealed McAfee’s ruling, seeking to remove Willis as well.
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