Donald Trump Trump’s lawyers want to dismiss the Georgia election tampering case. Their filing asserts that a “sitting president is completely immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal.” By Dareh Gregorian and Charlie Gile | NBC News • Published 3 hours ago, updated 3 hours ago. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Fani Willis is the Fulton County District Attorney. Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump requested a Georgia appeals court Wednesday to dismiss the Fulton County racketeering case against him, arguing that a “sitting president is completely immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal.” In filings filed with the Georgia Court of Appeals, Trump’s attorneys argued that the 2020 election interference accusations against him should be dismissed owing to “the unconstitutionality of his continued indictment and prosecution by the State of Georgia” now that “he is President-Elect and will soon become the 47th President of the United States.”

The case has been stalled for most of the year as Trump’s lawyers challenged a ruling that denied their request to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office from prosecuting the case on conflict of interest grounds. The appeals court was scheduled to hear arguments on Willis’s disqualification this week, but abruptly cancelled the hearing last month without explanation.