The court left open the possibility that the former president could still prevail in his effort to claim immunity from civil cases seeking to hold him accountable for the violence.
The special counsel’s office said that Donald Trump’s assertion that actions he took as president were not subject to prosecution was unsupported by the Constitution or legal precedent.
Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a judge to throw out charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 election, arguing that a president could not be criminally prosecuted for official acts.