9 Dec 2024 1:47 pm
------------------------------------*Beekeeper » 09 Dec 2024, 1:46 pm » wrote: ↑
ALL OPINIONS, DICKFACE, not actual COURT RULINGS!!
YOU LOSE!!!
Next.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/bre ... y-decision
On July 1, 2024, a divided Court set a precedent for immunity from criminal charges made against former presidents. In Trump v. United States, Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority decision said that a former president has criminal immunity for some official actions taken while in office. “At least with respect to the President’s exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute. As for his remaining official actions, he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity,” Roberts explained.Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanagh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined the majority decision. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.“At a minimum, the President must be immune from prosecution for an official act unless the Government can show that applying a criminal prohibition to that act would pose no ‘dangers of intrusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch,’” Roberts noted. “There is no immunity for unofficial acts,” he concluded.Roberts then sent the case back to a federal district trial court to reconsider its charges against Trump and draw distinctions between his alleged official and unofficial actions. Most observers agree that any trial faced by Trump for his unofficial acts as president would not be concluded until after the November elections.