He Supreme Court of USA has rejected a request from the special prosecutor Jack Smith in which he asked the court to rule on whether the former president of the United States donald trump enjoy presidential immunity in the framework of the federal case against him for attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 election.

This Friday the Supreme Court denied Smith’s request, which asked to resolve the issue quickly, without any comment, so The process will continue in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which has a session scheduled for January 9, as reported by the NBC Nres network.

This comes after the federal judge Tanya Chutkanwhich is investigating the federal case against Trump for trying to reverse the result of the 2020 elections, will temporarily paralyze the judicial process precisely due to this legal challenge.

In December, Chutkan already rejected a request from the former president in which he alleged that he was protected by presidential immunity. He also dismissed another request in which he claimed that the voter fraud case against him violated the First Amendment.

The tycoon faces four charges by conspire against the United States, by prevent Congress from certifying the results collected at the polls, by conspire against the right to voteas well as for his attempt to obstruct the certification of the minutes.

The tycoon pleaded not guilty of the four federal charges last August. Prosecutors argue that Trump manipulated protesters by making them believe that then-Vice President Mike Pence could change the election resultswhich finally led to the assault on the Capitol on January 6.

Trump also faces another trial, led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willisfor the case of electoral interference in the state of Georgia during the 2020 elections, for which he is accused of 13 state charges.