Advisers on former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign believe the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity will help his efforts for a second term at the White House and make another trial unlikely before Election Day. CBS News'
This court has deliberately curtailed executive power, has shown a strong preference to decide only questions before it and no more, and has strong institutionalist and textualist leanings. A new, broad presidential immunity rule, which is how many commentators understand its ruling in the Trump c...
On the final day of its term, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that will significantly enhance the power of the presidency. While it left lower courts to decide which of former President Donald Trump’s actions around the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol he could ...
If an officer of the federal government (or indeed anyone else) commits a criminal act, he can be prosecuted without regard to whether it was a private or an official act. Under the court’s ruling, only the president is immune, unless the act is determined to be private. ...
Elliott Davis Jr.Jan. 19, 2024 Tough Day for Trump in Federal Court A federal appeals panel appeared dubious of arguments of widespread executive immunity against criminal charges – a key to the former president’s defense to several indictments. ...
First, pass a “No One Is Above the Law Amendment,” establishing that “the Constitution does not confer any immunity from federal criminal indictment, trial, conviction, or sentencing by virtue of previously serving as President”—a direct response to the court’s recent immunity ruling where...
The Supreme Court recently made it more difficult to prosecute Donald Trump in his election interference case, ruling 6-3 along ideological lines to grant him partial immunity from criminal charges.The Onionexplores the pros and cons of bolstering Trump’s presidential power by making any “c...
By weighing in on the immunity question, the high court effectively delayed by months the election interference case, which is on hold in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court could rule on the issue quickly, but it tends to save its biggest rulings for the ...
Robbie Kaplan, the attorney for E. Jean Carroll, responded, "We are pleased that the Second Circuit affirmed Judge Kaplan’s rulings and that we can now move forward with trial next month on January 16." In December 2022, former President Donald Trump asserted presidentia...
EXCLUSIVE:Former President Trump touted the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling onpresidential immunityas a "big win for our Constitution and for democracy" during an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital. The Supreme Court ruled Monday in Trump v. United States that a former presi...