Trump Gets Criminal Immunity For 'Official' Acts as President, But Not for 'Unofficial'

Former President Donald Trump and all other former presidents have criminal immunity from prosecution for any official acts while they are in the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday, overturning the district and circuit courts that had said a president has no immunity for any criminal acts committed while in office.

While Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in writing the majority opinion stated that because Trump could be held accountable for unofficial acts showed that"no man is above the law," Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing her dissent said the ruling made a mockery of exactly that principle. "One of the examples they use are President Trump's tweets and speeches on January 6. They say, on the one hand the President's official duties require a lot of speaking to the public. At the same time it may be that at times he acts in an unofficial capacity as a candidate for office. So determining which of those labels to put on any particular act is going to depend on the specifics of that act," Berman said.

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