Courts should not rush into a trial because the subject of presidential immunity from criminal charges is “a novel, complex, and momentous question that warrants careful consideration on appeal,” the legal team led by D. John Sauer wrote. ...
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has some immunity from criminal charges for trying to reverse the 2020 election results, which makes a trial before election unlikely. The court, which has...
Trump's immunity appeal The D.C. Circuitmoved swiftly to considerTrump's appeal of a lower court decision that also rejected his claims of absolute immunity. The opinion from the three-judge panel came less than a month after they heard arguments in the case. Smith had urged the D.C. Ci...
Trump scrambles to buy time with immunity appeal to Supreme Court03:16 Share this - Copied As special counsel Jack Smith pushes to bring Donald Trump to trial, Trump's legal team continues to look for ways to delay his prosecution. Chuck Rosenberg, former U.S. attorney, t...
The trial date, already postponed once by Trump’s immunity appeal, is of paramount importance to both sides. Prosecutors are looking to bring Trump to trial this year while defense lawyers have been seeking delays in his criminal cases. If Trump were to be elected with the case p...
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former President Donald Trump is entitled to immunity from federal prosecution for official actions he took while in office.
After listening to two and half hours of oral argument in theDonald Trump immunity case, it is perfectly clear what the Supreme Court should decide: namely, as little as possible. In other words, the Supreme Court should set a different tack for themselves than making ...
The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Donald Trump may claim immunity in special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case, adding another explosive appeal from the former president to its docket and further delaying his federal trial. The court expedited the case and will hear...
The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Donald Trump may claim immunity from special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case, adding another explosive appeal from the former president to its docket and likely further delaying his federal trial. The court agreed to expedite the...
And that raises an important question that is largely unanswerable: Just how much time will the high court take to hand down its opinion? Usually, a major case argued in April wouldn’t be decided until the end of June. But in the Trump immunity appeal, the court is already facing critic...