Trump calls for Supreme Court to 'intercede' against Biden after third indictment

Less than 1 time aft being arraigned connected charges of trying to subvert the 2020 statesmanlike race, erstwhile President Donald Trump connected Friday called for the U.S. Supreme Court to measurement into the 2024 contest.

Trump, the apical contender successful the Republican statesmanlike primary, claimed that dealing with galore ongoing ineligible battles amounts to "election interference" — the precise happening helium is accused of conspiring to bash successful his latest indictment.

"My governmental hostile has deed maine with a barrage of anemic lawsuits, including D.A., A.G., and others, which necessitate monolithic amounts of my clip & wealth to adjudicate," Trump wrote connected Truth Social connected Friday morning.

"Resources that would person gone into Ads and Rallies, volition present person to beryllium spent warring these Radical Left Thugs successful galore courts passim the Country," Trump wrote. "I americium starring successful each Polls, including against Crooked Joe, but this is not a level playing field."

"It is Election Interference, & the Supreme Court indispensable intercede," helium wrote.

While the Supreme Court has successful the past been tasked with making large decisions astir statesmanlike elections — possibly astir notably by ruling connected a disputed recount successful Florida successful 2000 — it's acold from wide what Trump expects the precocious tribunal to bash astir his 78 transgression charges. In astir cases, the Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction, meaning it considers cases that person been appealed from little courts.

The Supreme Court did not instantly respond to CNBC's petition for comment. A Trump run spokesperson did not instantly respond to questions astir the erstwhile president's post.

Trump was charged Tuesday with 4 transgression counts related to his efforts to overturn his nonaccomplishment to President Joe Biden successful 2020.

The indictment, brought by peculiar counsel Jack Smith, alleges a monthslong effort by Trump and a half-dozen co-conspirators to support his clasp connected the presidency done a shifting, multi-layered conspiracy that violated aggregate national statutes, including Conspiracy to Defraud the United States.

The indictment centers connected Trump's actions starring up to and during Jan. 6, 2021, erstwhile a legislature gathering to corroborate Biden's electoral triumph was derailed by a convulsive pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Trump pleaded not blameworthy Thursday successful national tribunal successful Washington, D.C., conscionable blocks from the Capitol. Trump has suggested that the lawsuit should beryllium moved retired of D.C., wherever a assemblage would beryllium picked from a Democratic-leaning population, to a authorities similar West Virginia, which voted heavy for Trump successful the 2016 and 2020 elections.

It was the 3rd clip this twelvemonth that the erstwhile president has pleaded not blameworthy to transgression charges. Trump was arraigned successful June connected national charges stemming from his efforts to support classified documents aft leaving the presidency. Trump was besides charged by Manhattan prosecutors with falsifying concern records related to hush wealth payments to women who accidental they had extramarital affairs with him. Trump has denied cheating connected his wife.

Thursday's arraignment whitethorn not beryllium Trump's last. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to question indictments this period aft investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn his nonaccomplishment successful Georgia's 2020 election.

Despite the dozens of transgression charges weighing connected Trump, his statesmanlike run appears to support rising supra his GOP competitors.

A caller New York Times/Siena College canvass of apt Republican superior voters recovered Trump outpacing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by wide double-digit margins. In Iowa, a cardinal nominating authorities for Republicans, Trump holds a smaller but inactive commanding lead, according to different Times/Siena canvass published Friday.