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SlateKeeping up with Donald Trump’s court schedule is a dizzying task, since he faces two federal trials, a criminal trial in Georgia, and two separate civil and criminal trials in New York. Presidential Immunity and SEAL Team 6 On Jan. 9, the former president and his lawyers arrived at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and argued that Trump was entitled to “absolute immunity” from special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference indictment. The former president then held a news conference after the day’s court proceedings and described Kaplan as “a nasty man” who was “a Trump-hating guy,” since the judge refused to delay the trial so Trump could attend both the trial and his mother-in-law’s funeral on Thursday. The federal election interference trial has been on pause since December while an appeals court hears Trump’s presidential immunity claim.