How the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling can help Donald Trump fight off all the criminal charges against him
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Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is expected to use Monday’s historic Supreme Court decision granting him partial presidential immunity to attack the evidence against him in all four of his criminal cases, according to multiple sources familiar with their strategy.
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is expected to use Monday’s historic Supreme Court decision granting him partial presidential immunity to attack the evidence against him in all four of his criminal cases, according to multiple sources familiar with their strategy. The legal team hailed the 6-3 decision penned by Chief Justice John Roberts as a “major victory,” arguing it provides new avenues for Trump to defend himself in the two pending federal cases against him, as well as his state prosecution in Georgia, and challenge his conviction on 34 state felony charges in New York. The historic ruling from the high court said that Trump enjoys “absolute” presidential immunity for “his core constitutional powers,” but that he “enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does if official.” While a lot of attention has been focused on how the opinion bars prosecution for certain acts, the Trump legal team sees their biggest advantage in the court’s prohibition against using official acts as evidence. The majority ruled that evidence about official acts cannot be introduced “even on charges that purport to be based only on his unofficial conduct.” The Trump team is hopeful that language can be used to undermine the charges that survive the court’s immunity parameters. Trump’s lawyers believe the court’s ruling could have the biggest impact on the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, according to a source.
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If there’s one thing that American voters overwhelmingly agree on, it’s that this year’s presidential election presents a stark choice. In the latest CNN poll by SSRS, 91% of registered voters say they see important differences between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, dwarfing even the 77% of voters who said last fall that there were significant divides between the Democratic and Republican parties. Even among the so-called “double haters” – those with unfavorable views of both Biden and Trump – only 20% say that the two candidates are pretty much the same.