A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that former President Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity from prosecution of alleged criminal acts relating to 2020 election interference.

The appeal was made to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by the Trump team in connection to special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

“We have balanced former President Trump’s asserted interests in executive immunity against the vital public interests that favor allowing this prosecution to proceed,” the three-judge panel opinion said.

“We conclude that ‘[c]oncerns of public policy, especially as illuminated by our history and the structure of our government’ compel the rejection of his claim of immunity in this case,” the panel said, upholding a trial judge’s earlier ruling.

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The former president is expected to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is part of a larger effort to slow down Smith’s case against the former president.

Smith wants the trial to move ahead in March, seemingly trying to avoid the possible outcome of Trump — the Republican nominee frontrunner — winning the 2024 election.

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