Jonathan Turley assesses whether Jan 6 case against Trump will go to trial before election
Turley joins 'America's Newsroom' after appeals court rules Trump not immune in 2020 election case
By Fox News Staff Fox News
Published February 6, 2024 3:00pm EST
A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down former President Trump's immunity claim, relating to prosecution over his alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss. Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley told "America's Newsroom" that the ruling sets up a lengthy appeals process leading to the Supreme Court, which grows more complicated as the 2024 election nears.
JONATHAN TURLEY: This is the result some of us predicted. The panel was very skeptical of these arguments. What former President Trump was advancing was a sweeping and unprecedented claim of immunity, and it's not surprising that this panel rejected it. The interesting thing about this opinion is that they cite the impeachment and quote from it as saying that the president sought to incite this effort to overturn the election. And that's going to go forward. The most practical impact of this appeal was indeed the delay that it caused. It was very important for the Trump team to try to push this trial back. They succeeded in doing that, as you mentioned. Now, the next stage here is that they can ask for review of the entire court, what's called en banc petition. That has to be reviewed and voted on even if they reject it, and that will take some time. And then they will no doubt appeal to the Supreme Court, which now has a considerable stack on the desks of these justices, including election-related cases.
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