In his immunity brief to the Supreme Court, Donald Trump name-checks two articles by Brett Kavanaugh from before Trump appointed him to the high court. The citations were obviously meant to support the former president’s broad immunity claim. But a closer reading — beyond the quotes Trump's lawyers plucked from them — shows that Kavanaugh's words actually support the notion that former presidents can be prosecuted. The first Kavanaugh article cited in Trump's brief is titled “Separation of...
Presidents should have immunity for acts taken in office, they say – including attempts to overturn 2020 election resultsLawyers for Donald Trump urged the US supreme court to find that presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts they take in office and, therefore, dismiss the federal criminal case against Trump over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.The arguments from Trump came in a brief submitted to the court Tuesday before oral...
Lawyers for Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to dismiss an indictment charging the former president with conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election, renewing their arguments that he is immune from prosecution for official acts taken in the White House. Lower courts have already
Lawyers for Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to dismiss an indictment charging the former president with conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election, renewing their arguments that he is immune from prosecution for official acts taken in the White House. Lower courts have already twice rejected the immunity claims, […]
Donald Trump has now filed his brief at the Supreme Court arguing why he should be immune from prosecution in his federal election interference case. He asks the justices to dismiss special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment, which we don’t expect to happen. But even in the likely event that the high court doesn’t kill the case, Trump’s filing highlights a factor that could lead to further delay in the already-delayed case. That’s the possibility of “further fact-finding” on “remand,” as the filing...
Lower courts have already twice rejected the immunity claims, but Trump’s lawyers will get a fresh chance to press their case before the Supreme Court when the justices hear arguments on April 25.
Lower courts have already twice rejected the immunity claims, but Trump’s lawyers will get a fresh chance to press their case before the Supreme Court when the justices hear arguments on April 25.
Lower courts have already twice rejected the immunity claims, but Trump’s lawyers will get a fresh chance to press their case before the Supreme Court when the justices hear arguments on April 25.
Lower courts have already twice rejected the immunity claims, but Trump’s lawyers will get a fresh chance to press their case before the Supreme Court when the justices hear arguments on April 25.
Trump's lawyers will get a chance to press their case before the Supreme Court when the justices
The Supreme Court just rejected an appeal from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was barred from office after he was convicted in a Jan. 6-related case. Why, you might wonder, wouldn’t he benefit from the recent ruling approving Donald Trump’s ballot eligibility despite the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist ban? The court didn’t explain why it rejected Cowboys for Trump co-founder Couy Griffin’s petition Monday. But an important distinction is that Griffin’s case involved a state-level...
Anthony Scaramucci, former Trump White House Communications Director, Charlie Sykes MSNBC Columnist, and Basil Smikle join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to Liz Cheney’s most recent comments calling out the conservative Supreme Court for aiding and abetting Donald Trump and his legal team’s delay tactics by taking up the issue of Presidential Immunity.