An American president has immunity for official actions core to the constitutional mandate of the office, the US Supreme Court ruled on Monday.Before Donald Trump, the issue never arose.
"We conclude that under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power requires that a former president have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office," Roberts wrote. The court found Trump was absolutely immune for conversations with Justice Department officials. Trump is also"presumptively immune" regarding his interactions with Pence, it decided, but returned that and the two other categories to lower courts to determine whether Trump has immunity.
"Sorting out the court's opinion and how it applies is going to take a while," Georgetown University law professor Erica Hashimoto added."No chance of a pre-election trial." In a separate case brought in New York state court, Trump was found guilty by a jury in Manhattan on 30 May on 34 counts of falsifying documents to cover up hush money paid to a porn star to avoid a sex scandal before the 2016 election. Trump also faces criminal charges in two other cases. He has pleaded not guilty in those and called all the cases against him politically motivated.
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