By Jack Queen (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for his official acts as president plunges a major criminal case against him into doubt and all but assures he will not face trial before the Nov. 5 election. Here are some takeaways from the decision: PRESIDENTS […]
The US supreme court’s decision on Monday to confer broad immunity to former presidents is likely to eviscerate numerous parts of the criminal prosecution against Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The court remanded the case back to the presiding US district judge Tanya Chutkan to apply a […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday raised the bar for prosecuting Donald Trump, ruling that he has immunity for some of his conduct as president in his federal election interference case, but maybe not for other actions, adding another obstacle for special counsel Jack Smith taking the case to trial. In a novel and […]
The Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Donald Trump’s immunity case is a 119-page distillation of everything that is wrong with our politics. History will judge harshly the decision that creates an imaginary “absolute immunity” for a president’s official acts. The Republican majority opinion in the Trump immunity case is a disaster of anti-constitutional thinking that […]
On Monday, the Supreme Court issued the final decisions of its term, including the highly anticipated ruling on former President Donald Trump’s claims of immunity from criminal prosecution. From rulings on social media moderation to abortion pill access, here’s a look at some of the major cases the 6-3 conservative-majority court has heard this term. […]
Justice Clarence Thomas used the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity on Monday to again request that the constitutionality of special prosecutors, like Jack Smith, be called into question. In his opinion, Thomas asked the lower courts to render a ruling on Smith and the legality of the special prosecutor’s office before they proceed with […]
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former president Donald Trump is entitled to some presidential immunity from criminal prosecution in the federal election interference case against him. In a highly anticipated 6-3 decision in the Trump v. United States case, the justices decided that Trump does not have the broad presidential immunity that he has […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday 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. In a 6-3 ruling, the justices said that former presidents are shielded from prosecution for official acts but do […]
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a withering dissent to the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling on Monday, writing that U.S. presidents will now be able to assassinate political rivals and accept bribes with impunity while they’re in office. That’s a dangerous precedent to set, Sotomayor wrote, especially as the increasingly unpredictable Donald Trump seeks a return […]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former President Donald Trump enjoys presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts he took while in office, a victory for Will Scharf, his attorney and a Republican candidate for Missouri attorney general. Scharf and another Missouri lawyer, former Missouri Solicitor General D. John Sauer, argued Trump […]
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling on Monday sends the federal case accusing Donald Trump of attempting to overturn his 2020 defeat back to Judge Tanya Chutkan for critical decisions that will shape the future of the historic prosecution. Chutkan, a judge on the U.S. District Court in […]
The Supreme Court on Monday finally ruled on Donald Trump’s presidential immunity claim, finding some of the former president’s alleged efforts to overturn the election are immune from criminal prosecution. In the majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court said former presidents are entitled to “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution for actions within […]