Donald Trump returns to court as judges hear arguments on immunity

Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential primary front-runner, attended Tuesday’s arguments even though the Iowa caucuses are just a week away

Tue, 09 Jan, 2024 - 15:28

Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer and Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

Donald Trump has returned for the first time in months to the federal courthouse in Washington as his lawyers argued to appeal judges that he is immune from prosecution on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

“To authorise the prosecution of a president for official acts would open a Pandora’s box from which this nation may never recover,” said D John Sauer, a lawyer for Trump, claiming that presidents could be prosecuted for giving Congress “false information” to enter war or for authorising drone strikes targeting US citizens abroad.