United States Ex-President Donald Trump has appealed a court decision that forbids his associates and advisers from testifying before the grand jury in the criminal case regarding tampering with the 2020 elections that have been brought against him.
As per CNN report, US district judge Beryl Howell, who was the chief justice of the federal trial court in Washington, DC, at the time of the decision in mid-March, rejected the former president’s claims of executive privilege to prevent the testimony of his former aides and allies in the Justice Department’s special counsel investigations.
The decision of Howell, who mandated that Trump’s former advisers respond to the grand jury’s queries, is the subject of the appeal.
Trump’s associates, including his former top of staff Mark Meadows, former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe, former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, and former Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli, might be required to testify as a result of the decision.
Howell’s successor, Chief Judge James Boasberg, recently rendered another decision in which he rejected Trump’s assertion of executive privilege against the court’s decision to interrogate former vice president Mike Pence.
The judge granted the vice president specific constitutional safeguards to protect the legislative process from specific law enforcement activities.
