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Determining which of the alleged acts that Donald Trump is being prosecuted for in the state were official conduct, and which were not, could delay the case for months.
Manhattan prosecutors didn't oppose the delay as the former president seeks to overturn his conviction in New York.
The Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity is a catastrophe for American constitutional order. Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion holds—for the first time in U.S. history—that presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution that ordinary citizens do not.
Laurence Tribe explained what the Supreme Court decision means in "practical purposes" and it's "devastating."
President Joe Biden on Monday ripped the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity, which ruled that presidents have an absolute immunity from prosecution for core official acts.
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers want to argue that a Supreme Court decision giving presidents immunity for official acts should void his felony conviction for covering up hush money paid to a porn star.
The president, who has largely avoided weighing in on Trump's ongoing criminal cases, delivered a brief but stinging rebuke of the court's ruling.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat accused the conservative Supreme Court justices of using the court to "destroy democracy from within."
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The Supreme Court is working under the assumption that one candidate won't abuse its horrific immunity ruling.
The Supreme Court's ruling that former President Trump is presumptively immune from prosecution for official acts will have a ripple effect on his four criminal cases.
Amy Coney Barrett at her Supreme Court nomination hearing Oct. 14, 2020. Coney Barrett told the senators three times at her hearing that nobody was “above the law.” She joined the majority opinion Monday that awarded presidents some immunity from prosecution. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
On May 30, a unanimous jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors said Trump in 2017 signed off on an effort to cover up reimbursements for a "hush money" payment to an adult film star as he ran for office in 2016.
Manhattan prosecutors says they would be open to delaying Donald Trump’s sentencing in his criminal hush money case following a Supreme Court ruling that granted broad immunity protections to former presidents.
The decision likely ensures that the case against Trump won’t be tried before the election, and then only if he is not reelected.
Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver insight and analysis on the latest headlines from the White House and Capitol Hill
Manhattan prosecutors said they don’t oppose delaying the former president's sentencing date so that attorneys can submit new arguments.
The big picture: Democrats are painting a grim picture of what the Supreme Court ruling would mean for a second Trump term. The opinion "weaponizes, beyond even Donald Trump's wildest fantasies, the power and the immunity he would have to go after anybody he perceives as his enemies," Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) told Axios.
The Supreme Court handed down a historic decision on whether a former president is shielded from criminal liability for "official acts" taken while in the White House.
Donald Trump’s lawyers are seeking to vacate his New York hush money conviction based on Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.
Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) said Monday he will introduce a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court ruling issued Monday, which largely shields former presidents from criminal prosecution for actions in office.
As the legal community continues to dissect the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision, I find myself among those who are alarmed by it. In contrast to the many legal scholars sounding the alarm,
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity tossed out one plank of the federal criminal case involving former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and could exclude other aspects of the case,
Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys requested his sentencing in his New York criminal case should be delayed, just over a month after Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts.
The decision in Trump v. United States immediately ranks as one of the Supreme Court’s most significant.
( NewsNation) — Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein told NewsNation’s “ Morning in America ” that Monday’s Supreme Court immunity decision is “one more crisis on top of many crises.”
"I don't even know if President Bazoum is aware of the lifting of his immunity," the former president's communications adviser Hamid N'Gade told the AFP news agency. "We only get news about him ...
Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Tuesday that the recent ruling by the Supreme Court on presidential immunity is a “setback to our constitutional order.” “This is, to me, an
Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys requested his sentencing in his New York criminal case should be delayed, just over a month after Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts.
The Supreme Court recognized broad powers for U.S. presidents, which could help them avoid fraud and obstruction charges.
Justice Juan Merchan said that the former president would be sentenced on Sept. 18.
Critics of presidential immunity are right when they say there is no “presidential immunity clause” in the Constitution. But there is no separation of powers clause either and yet that legal concept has been a guiding principle of constitutional law since the Supreme Court’s first decision.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that presidents enjoy “absolute immunity” for official acts taken under their core responsibilities and may have some immunity from criminal prosecution for other official behavior,
The Supreme Court held that a former president enjoys 'absolute' immunity for 'actions within his exclusive constitutional power.'
"I don’t see how this case could go forward before the election," Alina Habba said after the Supreme Court made its decision in Trump v. United States.
The court said that former U.S. presidents retain significant immunity from prosecution for acts taken while in office, a decision that threatens to hamper efforts to prosecute Donald Trump for his alleged attempt to subvert the 2020 election.
Former President Donald Trump saw Monday’s Supreme Court ruling granting him at least partial immunity from prosecution as a victory.
The court says a president is absolutely immune for actions in his core constitutional authority, potentially gutting one of the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled former President Donald Trump may have some immunity from prosecution related to actions he took in the aftermath of the 2020 election. "Under our constitutional structure of separated powers,
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said it was a “sad day” after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents have absolute immunity for actions taken as part of their core presidential duties.
Democrats are furious over the Supreme Court's decision in Trump's immunity case, but it's starkly contrasted with their more muted response to Biden's debate performance.
Both anti- and pro-Trump demonstrators were present following the ruling in Trump v. United States. After the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Donald Trump in the case pertaining to presidential immunity Monday, demonstrators gathered outside of the Supreme Court building to make their voices heard, both for and against the decision.
In a perverted sense, Democrats are giving the public a powerful lesson in constitutional law. As Alexander Hamilton stated in The Federalist No. 78, judicial independence “is the best expedient which can be devised in any government to secure a steady, upright and impartial administration of the laws.”
But, the plea deal and diversion agreement fell apart last summer when Judge Maryellen Noreika expressed skepticism over a prosecutorial immunity clause inside the diversion agreement. She did so ...
Jonathan Turley called out "misleading attacks" from President Biden, Democrats and the media following the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity.
President Donald Trump’s behavior in the runup to, and on, Jan. 6 was outrageous: That much is beyond doubt. Yet Monday’s Supreme Court ruling guarantees that special counsel Jack
The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of the former President Donald Trump in a case concerning presidential immunity. The court’s ruling states that presidents and former presidents have immunity from prosecution for actions taken in their official capacity, but not for those taken in a private capacity.
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UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo and 'Outnumbered' panel discuss the influence of the immunity ruling on the New York case and if the conviction will be overturned
The Supreme Court stopped short of spiking the indictment against President Trump outright, but it at least bought him much-needed time by sending the issue back to the lower courts to hash out