The Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that former President Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution, rejecting Trump’s claims of absolute presidential immunity for alleged crimes committed in office.
The Hill has more:
“For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant,” the panel for the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in its 57-page decision.
“But any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as President no longer protects him against this prosecution.”
“We cannot accept former President Trump’s claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power — the recognition and implementation of election results. Nor can we sanction his apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count,” the judges wrote in the decision.
“We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter. Careful evaluation of these concerns leads us to conclude that there is no functional justification for immunizing former Presidents from federal prosecution in general or for immunizing former President Trump from the specific charges in the Indictment.”
Donald Trump plans to appeal the ruling.
“Prosecuting a President for official acts violates the Constitution and threatens the bedrock of our Republic. President Trump respectfully disagrees with the DC Circuit’s decision and will appeal it in order to safeguard the Presidency and the Constitution,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.
“Deranged Jack Smith’s prosecution of President Trump for his Presidential, official acts is unconstitutional under the doctrine of Presidential Immunity and the Separation of Powers,” Cheung said.
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WHAT A POS…..BECAUSE SCOTUS HASN’T RULED ON THIS…AND SHE HAS NO AUTHORITY TO MAKE SUCH AN OUTRAGEOUS COMMENT. SHOWS SHE ISN’T BIAS AND HASN’T EVEN HEARD ON BIT OF EVIDENCE/ARGUMENT. SHE NEEDS TO RECUSE HERSELF
Rigged BS Game
Goes Both ways
Rulings apply to Dems too