Trump seeks to have Georgia election case dismissed, citing presidential immunity

President-elect Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Cobb Energy Centre on Oct. 15, 2024. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

This story was updated on Dec. 4, 2024, at 4:17 p.m.

President-elect Donald Trump is trying to get the Georgia election interference case against him dismissed, asserting that the state’s courts will not have jurisdiction over him once he returns to the White House next month.

The Georgia case against Trump and others is mostly on hold pending a pretrial appeal of an order allowing prosecutor Fani Willis to remain on the case despite what defense attorneys say is a conflict of interest. Trump’s attorneys on Wednesday filed a notice with the Georgia Court of Appeals saying a sitting president is “completely immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal.”