Former President Trump argued in a Supreme Court brief filed Monday that the Constitution’s framers would have supported his position that a president can’t face criminal prosecution for official acts.
19 Retired Generals, Admirals File Supreme Court Brief Against Trump Immunity Bid Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than a dozen former Defense Department officials, generals, and admirals filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing against former President Donald Trump’s presidential immunity arguments. (Left) Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks in Washington on Aug. 1, 2023. (Right) Former President Donald Trump attends his trial in New...
Fifteen scholars on US history outline that Trump is not immune to prosecution for crimes committed while he was presidentFifteen prominent historians filed an amicus brief with the US supreme court, rejecting Donald Trump’s claim in his federal election subversion case that he is immune to criminal prosecution for acts committed as president.Authorities cited in the document include the founders Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Adams, in addition to the historians’ own work. Continue...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s team urged the Supreme Court on Monday night to reject former President Donald Trump‘s claim that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The brief from prosecutors was submitted just over two weeks before
Trump appealed lower court’s denial of his request to be shielded from case charging him with attempting to overturn 2020 electionThe special counsel pursuing federal criminal charges against Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss filed a US supreme court brief on Monday urging the justices to reject the former president’s bid for immunity from prosecution on the principle that “no person is above the law”.The case is due to be argued before the justices on 25 April....
Prosecutors urge Supreme Court to reject Trump's immunity claims in election subversion case
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s team urged the Supreme Court on Monday night to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The brief from prosecutors was submitted
Special Counsel Jack Smith filed Monday his argument to the Supreme Court against Donald Trump's presidential immunity plea, court records show. Smith delivered a 66-page condemnation of the former president's claim that his actions between the 2020 presidential election and U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, are beyond the reach of prosecution in the special counsel's federal election interference case."Petitioner’s use of official power was merely an additional means of achieving a private...
Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department and Claire McCaskill, former Senator from Missouri join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to a new letter urging the Supreme Court to reject the Trump Immunity question from retired high ranking officers in our military, with concerns that it could upend America’s standing as protector of democracy around the world.
A group of former government officials and constitutional lawyers submitted a brief to the Supreme Court of the United States Monday, arguing against the idea that former presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution. The brief responded to a case involving Donald Trump who claims he should be immune from prosecution by United States special counsel Jack Smith. The case is currently under review by the Supreme Court, with hearings set to start April 25. The group behind the brief...
The New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money trial said Monday that Trump cannot attend arguments at the Supreme Court next week over presidential immunity. It came after the judge earlier delayed a decision on allowing Trump to attend his son Barron's high school graduation in May. The attempts by Trump to take []
The New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money trial said Monday that Trump cannot attend arguments at the Supreme Court next week over presidential immunity. It came after the judge earlier delayed a decision on allowing Trump to attend his son Barron's high school graduation in May. The attempts by Trump to take []