Former U.S. President Donald Trump after a jury found him guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal trial in New York State Supreme Court on May 30.The U.S. Supreme Court has granted Donald Trump immunity from prosecution for his official acts while president, significantly delaying his impending trial on charges related to his attempt to overturn the result of the 2020 election and possibly ending it altogether.
The Supreme Court’s ruling represents a potentially sweeping expansion of executive power, removing the possibility of legal sanctions for presidential actions taken in an official capacity.Demonstrators participate in a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on July 1 in Washington. The Supreme Court released its ruling in Trump v. United States, stating that a former president has absolute immunity for official acts but that immunity is not extended for unofficial acts.
The ruling said it was unclear whether Mr. Trump’s other efforts to cling to power were official or unofficial and left it up to Tanya Chutkan, the District Court Judge on the 2020 case, to decide. Among other things, Mr. Trump pressed then-vice-president Mike Pence and various state officials to throw out Joe Biden’s electoral votes, and summoned the Jan. 6, 2021, protest that ended with a riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump supporters in Pennsylvania are getting organized to challenge the presidential election result again “For all practical purposes, today’s decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do,” he said at the White House. “It’s a dangerous precedent, because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by law.”
More broadly, he said, it “restructures dramatically the American system of government” and creates an “imperial presidency.” Even if a president is tried over an unofficial act, he said, the inability of prosecutors to use actions taken in an official capacity as evidence will make it extremely difficult to build a case.
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