President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to dismiss the ongoing case against him for changing the results of the 2020 election. The 5-page written request filed by a lawyer says that the charges against Trump are unconstitutional because he is about to be sworn in as the country’s president.
In this case, 18 people, including Trump, were charged with various roles in an alleged criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s lawyer Steven Sedow said in a statement that “Trump’s appeal requests the Georgia Court of Appeals to confirm its jurisdiction to continue hearing the case because now that he is president-elect and will soon become the 47th president of the United States, he will order the court to immediately dismiss the case.” It has been argued that no criminal case can be filed against a sitting president under the US Constitution. It is worth mentioning here that federal judges have already dismissed two criminal cases against Trump.
