Donald Trump got backing of Republican senators, former federal officials and more than a dozen states Tuesday in his Supreme Court bid to halt criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Trump as well as Republican officials from across the country filed briefs at the high court ahead of the oral arguments next month in a case that could determine whether the presumptive Republican nominee for president may face trial on those charges before this fall’s election.
Trump’s attorneys argued in a brief that the former president’s alleged efforts to stop vote counting in several states and orchestrating a false slate of presidential electors fell within his duties as president to combat election fraud.
