Police officers stand guard in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., the United States, on July 1, 2024. 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 court also could extend the delay while it hears arguments on the immunity issue. In that event, the schedule the justices set could determine how soon a trial might begin, if indeed they agree with lower court rulings that Trump is not immune from prosecution. ...
Washington —A federal appeals court in Washington found former President Donald Trump is not entitled tobroad immunityfrom federal prosecution, delivering a landmark decision that would allow the criminal case against the former president involving the 2020 presidential election to move forward if the ...
Breaking down the Trump immunity claim rulingA federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump's claim of immunity from federal prosecution. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford and CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa...
The Supreme Court’s ruling in former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case makes it all but certain that the Republican will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election.
And though it typically takes months for appeals to wind their way through higher courts, the D.C. Circuit and the Supreme Court could quickly resolve the question of immunity if the judges want to, said Jessica Roth, a Cardozo School of Law professor who has been...
The appeals court took center stage in the immunity dispute after the Supreme Court in December said it was at least temporarily staying out of it, rejecting a request from Smith’s team to take up the matter quickly and issue a speedy ruling. But the court could yet still decide to act...
Critics warned that it was an overreach and that the court could not simply declare that the Jan. 6 attack was an “insurrection” without a more established judicial process. A week after Colorado’s ruling, Bellows issued her own. Critics warned it was even more perilous because it could...
On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court decided to hear oral arguments the week of April 22 in Trump’s claim that he has presidential immunity. The challenge is related to special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case against the former president, but the final ruling from the court ...
When discussing the issue of determining motivation in the case, Justice Neil Gorsuch highlighted the historical importance of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the matter of presidential immunity. “I’m not concerned about this case, but I am concerned about future uses of the criminal law to ...