BREAKING: Supreme Court rules Trump is entitled to some immunity in Jan. 6 case

[DigitalDrifter]

Here it is:

What you need to know​

• JUST IN: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump may claim immunity from criminal prosecution for some of the actions he took in the waning days of his presidency in a decision that will likely further delay a trial on the federal election subversion charges pending against him.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-immunity-supreme-court-decision-07-01-24/index.html

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Jack Smith is likely not a happy man this morning.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Here it is:

What you need to know​

• JUST IN: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump may claim immunity from criminal prosecution for some of the actions he took in the waning days of his presidency in a decision that will likely further delay a trial on the federal election subversion charges pending against him.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-immunity-supreme-court-decision-07-01-24/index.html

Most of the people-of-the-cult must be freaked out.

Live Updates: Supreme Court Says Trump Is Partly Shielded From Prosecution​

The practical effect of the ruling raises the possibility of further delay of the case against the former president on charges of plotting to subvert the 2020 election.

No absolute immunity?!?!

Here’s the latest on the ruling.​

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that former President Donald J. Trump is entitled to some level of immunity from prosecution, a decision that may effectively delay the trial of the case against him on charges of plotting to subvert the 2020 election.

The vote was 6 to 3, dividing along partisan lines.

Mr. Trump contended that he is entitled to absolute immunity from the charges, relying on a broad understanding of the separation of powers and a 1982 Supreme Court precedent that recognized such immunity in civil cases for actions taken by presidents within the “outer perimeter” of their official responsibilities. Lower courts rejected Mr. Trump’s claim, but the Supreme Court’s ruling may delay the case enough that Mr. Trump would be able to make it go away entirely if he prevails in November.
Here’s what to know:

• The ruling: The justices said that Mr. Trump is immune from prosecution for official acts taken during his presidency but that there was a crucial distinction between official and private conduct. The case returns to the lower court, which will decide whether the actions Mr. Trump took were in an official or private capacity.
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• The charges: The former president faces three charges of conspiracy and one count of obstructing an official proceeding, all related to his efforts to cling to the presidency after his 2020 loss. He was indicted last August by the special counsel, Jack Smith, in one of two federal criminal cases against him; the other relates to the F.B.I. raid on his private club, Mar-a-Lago, in August 2022 that recovered missing government documents.
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• Lower courts ruled against Trump: The trial judge, Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court in Washington, denied Mr. Trump’s immunity request in December. “Whatever immunities a sitting president may enjoy, the United States has only one chief executive at a time, and that position does not confer a lifelong ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ pass,” she wrote.
  
  A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed in February, saying that “any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as president no longer protects him against this prosecution.”
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• The timing: Even before the ruling, the court’s decision to take up the case already helped Mr. Trump’s strategy to delay his prosecution until after the November election in the hopes he will win and be able to stop it entirely.
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• Other Jan. 6 cases: The court heard two other cases this term concerning the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, both of which relate to Mr. Trump. One — an attempt to bar Mr. Trump from the ballot in Colorado under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which made people who engages in insurrection ineligible to hold office — was unanimously rejected in March.The other limited the use of a federal obstruction law to prosecute members of the mob who stormed the Capitol. Two of the four charges against Mr. Trump are based on that law.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Oh snap!!!

5 min ago

Scathing Sotomayor dissent: "The President is now a king above the law"​

Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not hold back in her dissent.

“Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today. Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.”
“Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”
“Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today.”

 

[pknopp]

I have to note the hypocrisy. The court over ruled RvW because they said no such protection exists in the Constitution.

Now they rule a president has certain protections despite there being nothing about that in the Constitution.

 

[Mac1958]

Sounds like possibly good news for the Unified Reich!

 

[blackhawk]

Much like Biden’s debate performance the fact the court ruled Presidents have some degree of immunity should not be a surprise to anyone.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Jack Smith is likely not a happy man this morning.

Why not?

 

[struth]

Been a bad week to be a demafacist

 

[2aguy]

Here it is:

What you need to know​

• JUST IN: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump may claim immunity from criminal prosecution for some of the actions he took in the waning days of his presidency in a decision that will likely further delay a trial on the federal election subversion charges pending against him.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-immunity-supreme-court-decision-07-01-24/index.html

The democrat party has has a no good, really fucking aweful, bad week...........

 

[wamose]

Anything that can deter these Trump investigations and bring this election back to something that resembles fair, is OK with me. MAGA

 

[DigitalDrifter]

8 min ago

Trump’s immunity must first be sorted out by lower courts, Supreme Court says​

Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion said that the trial court will have to assess what of Donald Trump’s alleged conduct is immunized under the new test handed down by the high court.

The opinion said that additional briefing will be needed for the trial court to do so.

“We accordingly remand to the District Court to determine in the first instance—with the benefit of briefing we lack– whether Trump’s conduct in this area qualifies as official or unofficial,” Roberts wrote.

Roberts said there was a lack of “factual analysis” in the previous lower court opinions rejecting Trump’s immunity. Roberts pushed back on a dissent from Jackson that “would have us exhaustively define every application of Presidential immunity.”

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Jack Smith is likely not a happy man this morning.

Neither are the ghost of our founding fathers.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Sounds like possibly good news for the Unified Reich!

No absolute immunity.

That means Trump can and will be prsocuted for actions surrounding trying to obstruct Jan 6 and steal the election.

 

[pknopp]

Much like Biden’s debate performance the fact the court ruled Presidents have some degree of immunity should not be a surprise to anyone.

You support giving even more power to the government?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

the trial court will have to assess what of Donald Trump’s alleged conduct is immunized under the new test handed down by the high court.

The opinion said that additional briefing will be needed for the trial court to do so.

Trump will be tried and convicted.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

The democrat party has has a no good, really fucking aweful, bad week...........

The county has had a no good, really fucking aweful, bad week

 

[crossbody]

Good job Supreme Court.

Now go take a vacation!

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Trump will be tried and convicted.

No he will not, this will push it back well past next year. He will either be POTUS or living in a different country.

 

[Mac1958]

No absolute immunity.

That means Trump can and will be prsocuted for actions surrounding trying to obstruct Jan 6 and steal the election.

That depends on whether an action is considered "official." With a MAGA Supreme Court to help.