Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to suspend the verdict against his immunity in the January 6 Capitol Hill attack trial. “Conducting a months-long criminal trial against President Trump in the heat of election season will prevent him from campaigning against President Biden,” Trump's lawyers wrote in their request.

The ruling against immunity, the lawyers argue, "risks going against the First Amendment both for Trump and for tens of millions of American voters who have the right to hear his election message"