{"id":1410629,"date":"2023-12-24T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=f2f9daa672dc818992e980737d55a630"},"modified":"2023-12-24T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T15:42:58","slug":"trumps-immunity-claim-faces-federal-appeals-court-scrutiny-in-indictment-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/24\/trumps-immunity-claim-faces-federal-appeals-court-scrutiny-in-indictment-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Immunity Claim Faces Federal Appeals Court Scrutiny in Indictment Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&rsquo;s lawyers asked a federal appeals court on Saturday to throw out special counsel Jack Smith&rsquo;s indictment of the former president related to the Jan. 6 uprising, arguing that Trump is immune from prosecution for acts he committed as president. This follows the U.S. Supreme Court&rsquo;s refusal to fast-track Trump&rsquo;s appeal of a previous ruling by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/trumps-immunity-claim-faces-federal-appeals-court-scrutiny-in-indictment-battle\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/trumps-immunity-claim-faces-federal-appeals-court-scrutiny-in-indictment-battle\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump&#8217;s legal team seeks immunity from Jan. 6 indictment sparking a legal battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29960,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,4402,51514,55299,53915,4,1369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410631,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410629\/revisions\/1410631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}