Washington— The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former presidents are entitled to immunity from federal prosecution for official acts, a landmark decision that has major ramifications for former President Donald Trump. The ruling dealt primarily with special counsel Jack Smith's case against Trump...
The 6-3 decision along ideological lines tosses out a ruling from the federal appeals court in Washington that concluded Trump isnot entitled to broad immunityfrom criminal charges stemming from an alleged scheme to hold on to power after the 2020 election. The justices sent the dispute back to...
The pause of the election case forced Chutkan to postpone Trump's trial, which was initially set to start March 4. Critics fumed when the high court decided to take up the immunity question, rather than let stand an appellate court ruling rejecting Trump's immunity claims. The Supreme Court...
“for the ages,” as Justice Neil Gorsuchsuggested. Instead, the court should keep it simple, treat the Trump immunity decision as the easy “non-official” electioneering case that it is and avoid making a definitive, complicated and time-consuming ruling on presidential ...
Relying on little more than its own "misguided wisdom" about the need for "bold and unhesitating action" by the President, the Court gives former President Trump "all the immunity he asked for and more," they said. Trump, meanwhile, praised the Supreme Court's ruling. "BIG WIN FOR OUR...
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Special counsel attorney tells Barrett that SCOTUS ruling could impact state Trump prosecutions From CNN's Holmes Lybrand The attorney for special counsel Jack Smith suggested that if the Supreme Court found that presidential immunity was implicit, it could also protect the president from state prose...
The Republican governor argued that the court’s ruling “isn’t a ruling for President Trump” but “for presidents.” “This ruling also protects Joe Biden from immunity against official acts in office and we need to have immunity for presidents of the United States, particularly when we’re...
Or Trump could potentially order a pardon for himself. Trump posted in all capital letters on his social media network shortly after the decision was released: “BIG WIN FOR OUR CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRACY. PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!” READ MORE After Supreme Court immunity ruling, Bide...
The justices rejected Trump's immunity claims in a ruling that left for another day the issue of whether former presidents can ever insulate themselves from criminal charges for officials acts they took while in office.