Well earlier this week potential jurors in Washington DC in the case of United States of America

versus Donald J Trump received preliminary questionnaires about their potential availability

for a trial beginning on March 4th and today Donald Trump's lawyers filed a motion to block any more

preliminary steps in jury selection in that case and to block everything else in that case

Donald Trump's lawyers filed a motion this afternoon

to request, quote, the automatic stay of all district court proceedings

in this case pending the final resolution of Donald Trump's recently filed appeal

from the court's December 1st, 2023 rulings on presidential immunity and

double jeopardy.

Last Friday, Judge Tanya Chutkin issued a 44-page ruling denying Donald Trump's motion

that he is completely immune from any criminal charges for anything that he may have

done while he was president of the United States, and that putting him through a criminal

trial for his activities leading up to an on January 6th

would be double jeopardy after he was impeached by the House of Representatives for the same activity

and went to trial in the United States

Senate for the same activity a trial in which a majority of the Senate voted to

convict Donald Trump but not the two-thirds majority required by the Constitution to

convict a president in a Senate impeachment trial. A participant in that trial

will be joining us later. In the Trump motion filed this afternoon, the Trump

criminal defense lawyers specifically asked the court, quote, to stay all

proceedings in this matter pending appeal including but not limited to

pretrial motions, defense disclosures relating to trial defenses and

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