Former President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a lower-court ruling allowing his D.C. criminal election subversion case to move forward, echoing his repeatedly rejected argument that he is immune from prosecution.
“Without immunity from criminal prosecution, the Presidency as we know it will cease to exist,” Trump’s lawyers claimed in the filing, arguing that if presidents can be charged for actions in office, “such prosecutions will recur and become increasingly common, ushering in destructive cycles of recrimination.”
