The Supreme Court of the United States will decide on Trump's immunity in the case of electoral interference

The Supreme Court agreed this Wednesday that it will decide whether former President Donald Trump had presidential immunity when he tried to reverse the electoral result of the 2020 elections, a loss to Joe Biden that he refused, and still refuses, to admit.

In practice, the court's announcement represents a victory for Trump's legal strategy and entails a new postponement of the start of the trial against the magnate in Washington for the events that led to the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. .

Trump's defense plan involves delaying as much as possible the four proceedings he has pending with the justice system, in which he faces 91 crimes.

The ideal for his lawyers is that they be delayed so much that the elections next November arrive beforehand, in which everything indicates that Trump will face Biden again in his attempt to return to the White House four years later.

In a brief writing, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear the arguments of both parties during the week of April 22 and that it would then issue its verdict.

If the Supreme Court agrees, the charges will be dismissed.

If not, the process, which threatens to drag on for months, could go ahead.

District Judge Tanya Chutkan, based in Washington, had originally scheduled the first hearing of the trial for this March 4, next Monday.

A three-judge panel of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Trump's claim for immunity on February 6, but gave him time to file an emergency request with the Supreme Court that would prevent the decision from coming into force.

Trump's defense maintains that as president he had total immunity for his actions.

It remains to be seen, among other things, whether such attempts to interfere in the elections can fall into the category of the normal performance of the work of the American presidency.

“For purposes of this criminal case, former President Trump has become Citizen Trump, with all the defenses of any other criminal defendant.

But any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as president no longer protects him against this accusation,” the 57-page ruling said in its introduction.

“It would be a surprising paradox if the president, who has the ultimate constitutional duty of ensuring faithful compliance with the laws, were the only position capable of challenging them with impunity,” the judges develop in the foundations of the decision.

“We cannot accept that the office of the presidency places its former occupants above the law forever,” she says in another of her sentences.

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