Donald Trump got away with it. That’s the result, anyway. Monday’s Supreme Court decision is a little more detailed: The court, by a 6-3 vote along partisan lines, granted the once-and-maybe-future president immunity from prosecution over most of his actions to overthrow the government in 2020 and 2021. But that’s …
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Judge Juan Merchan has agreed to postpone the sentencing of former President Donald Trump to September 18, following a Supreme Court decision finding that presidents are entitled to immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office. White the court’s decision will most directly affect the Department of Justice’s …
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On Monday evening, President Joe Biden addressed the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity, speaking to the public for a total of four minutes and promptly leaving without taking any questions. The brief speech arrives days after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump left many Democratic lawmakers and Biden allies …
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Hours after the Supreme Court ruled Monday that presidents have “absolute” immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office, Donald Trump moved to have his hush money conviction in New York tossed. According to CNN, in a letter to the judge overseeing the case, the former president’slegal team …
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The Supreme Court has ruled that presidents are entitled to immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office. The landmark decision delivers a critical blow to the Justice Department’s ongoing election interference case against former president Donald Trump, and virtually guarantees the case will not go to trial …
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On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that American presidents have “absolute immunity” from prosecution for any “official acts” they take while in office. For President Joe Biden, this should be great news. Suddenly a host of previously unthinkable options have opened up to him:He could dispatch Seal Team 6 to …
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Donald Trump spent years being bitterly mad at a Supreme Court majority and a conservative legal movement that did not work hard enough to help him steal the 2020 presidential election. But ahead of the 2024 election, the court seems to be making up for his troubles. The high court …
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We dodged a bullet with the Supreme Court this term. Literally. Last year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that domestic abusers subject to qualifying protective orders must be allowed to purchase and carry firearms. You read that right. In U.S. v. Rahimi, the court ruled that the Constitution …
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On Thursday, in their ruling halting the Biden administration’s plan to limit ozone pollution from drifting into other states, Supreme Court justices repeatedly, accidentally referenced “nitrous oxide” — a.k.a. laughing gas — rather than the chemical compounds actually at issue in the case. The opinion, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, …
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The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Justice Department overstepped in charging hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters with the crime of “obstruction of an official proceeding.” The decision could force prosecutors to reconsider some of its pending cases against rioters. In a ideologically mixed 6-3 vote, the court ruled …
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