The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority that includes three justices appointed by Trump himself, voted 6-3 along ideological lines, ordering the lower courts to reconsider the case and determine which allegations cannot be prosecuted. Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking for the majority,...
Jonathan Mitchell, a Texas-based attorney for Trump, laid out his case first. He repeatedly pointed to an 1869 case involving a criminal defendant named Caesar Griffin, believed to be the first major judicial opinion on Section 3. Chief Justice Salmon Chase, serving as the circuit judge wh...
That landmark decision was the catalyst for the high-stakes showdownnow before the Supreme Court, which includes three justices appointed by Trump himself. The case, formally known as Trump v. Anderson, raises a number of untested legal questions for the justices to consider and propels the na...
Trump and Smith filed dueling briefs at the Supreme Court over whether the decision should be put on hold. Smith countered in his own filing on February 14 that Trump wasn’t close to meeting the standard required to pause proceedings. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan had already postponed ...
It also comes just hours after the Supreme Court announced it would hear oral arguments in Trump’s claim that he has presidential immunity against criminal charges. Cook County Circuit Judge Tracie Porter stripped Trump from the Illinois ballot one month after the anti-Trump challenge was ...
The Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for official acts as president, limiting the evidence and scope of special counsel Jack Smith's case. Trump is charged in a four-count indictment with illegally conspiring to overturn his loss to Presiden...
A three-judge appeals panel appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents unanimouslydeniedTrump’s request in a Feb. 6opinionthat found the former president’s arguments “unsupported by precedent, history or the text and structure of the Constitution.” ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has been evenly divided between Democratic appointees and Republican ones since Justice Antonin Scalia unexpectedly died last February. Earlier this month, several Senate Democrats vowed to block any nominee picked by Trump other than Judge Merrick Garland, nominated by former ...
The Supreme Court has previously held that presidents are immune from civil liability for official acts, and Trump’s lawyers have for months argued that that protection should be extended tocriminal prosecutionas well. Last week, a unanimous panel of two judges appointed by President Joe Biden an...
Trump appointed three of the nine justices of the court, widening its conservative majority to 6-3. He had urged the Supreme Court to effectively rule that former presidents are insulated from accountability through the legal system. The Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump's appeal in late Ap...