2024-07-26 03:06:40
The US Supreme Court has granted the former president partial immunity for his efforts to overturn the result of the election he lost in 2020.
The Supreme Court of the United States determined that Donald Trump can claim immunity facing criminal prosecution for some of the actions he carried out in the final days of his term.
The ruling overturned a federal appeals court decision in February this year that the former US president did not enjoy immunity from prosecution. alleged crimes he committed during his presidency to reverse the results of the 2020 electionspecifically with the assault on the Capitol in Washington that occurred on January 6, 2021.
The above, will further delay a trial on federal charges of electoral subversion pending against him.
In what cases is Donald Trump immune?
The president of the Supreme Court of that country, John Roberts, stated: “The nature of presidential power requires that a former president have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his term“.
To which he added: “At least with respect to the president’s exercise of his fundamental constitutional powers, This immunity must be absolute”as reported by CNN.
“The president does not enjoy immunity for his unofficial acts, and Not everything the president does is official. The president is not above the law.“Roberts said, emphasizing the distinction between official and unofficial acts.
In this regard, he argued that it is the lower courts that must decide whether these actions “are subject to immunity, and that analysis is ultimately best left to the lower courts to carry out in the first instance.”
What will happen to Donald Trump after receiving partial immunity?
The first effect of this sentence is that stops the electoral subversion casewhich has to do with the attempt to overturn the election that led to the assault on the Capitol.
In addition to this, according to local media, the former president’s lawyers would already be using it as an argument for the conviction that the former president already has is annulled for a criminal case for falsifying documents to conceal a hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
In this case, the conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records and the sentence will be announced on July 11. These records were signed during his term in 2017.
Trump’s defense thus argues that some of the impeachment evidence should not have been allowed because it constituted official presidential acts.
Joe Biden’s reaction to Donald Trump’s resolution
The current US President, Joe Biden, criticized the Supreme Court’s decision. “There are no kings in America. Each of us is equal before the law. No one, no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States,” he began by saying.
“(With) the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that has fundamentally changed. For all practical purposes, there are virtually no limits on what the president can do. It is a fundamentally new principle and it is a dangerous precedent because the power of the office will no longer be limited by law, not even by the Supreme Court of the United States,” warned the Democratic candidate.