2024-04-28 17:29:00
In a case that could affect the November elections, the United States Supreme Court will examine tomorrow if Donald Trump He enjoys criminal immunity as a former president.
Although most experts in constitutional right If they predict a judicial defeat, it is possible that he has already won a political victory.
By accepting the case, the court delayed the start of a trial in which Trump is accused of conspiring to alter the results of the 2020 election, which the Democratic president won. Joe Biden.
There is no jurisprudence on the matter because, until Trumpno former tenant of the White House He was accused of a crime.
The special prosecutor Jack Smith He filed the electoral conspiracy case against Trump, 77, in August and has been pushing since then for the trial to begin in March.
Trump’s lawyers filed a series of motions to stay the case against the Republican presidential candidate, including one arguing that a former president enjoys “absolute immunity.”
Two courts rejected this argument outright, but the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority and with three of the nine judges appointed by Trump, accepted the case for processing.
Trump also faces charges over the 2020 election in Georgia and is charged in Florida for alleged mishandling of classified information after leaving the White House.
Opening arguments in his trial began on Monday in NY for falsifying business records through a payment to a porn actress before the 2016 election.
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2024-04-28 17:29:00