Supreme court declines to expedite decision on Trump’s immunity claim in 2020 election case

Decision gives Trump a crucial victory as he seeks to delay as much as possible his trial, currently scheduled for next March

The US supreme court on Friday rejected a request by the special counsel to expeditiously decide whether Donald Trump has immunity from federal prosecution over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, before a lower appeals court issued its own judgment.

The one sentence denial means the case is returned to the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit, where a three-judge panel is scheduled to hear oral arguments in January, and the case against Trump remains frozen pending the outcome of the appeal.