US Supreme Court split ruling favors Donald Trump

WASHINGTON. — This Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States failed that the Former presidents have a certain immunity from justiceextending the extension in the criminal case which follows Donald Trump on allegations that he plotted to annul his defeat in the 2020 elections and virtually eliminating any possibility of the former president being tried before the November elections.

In a landmark 6-3 ruling, the justices sent the Trump case back to a previous court to determine what remains of the indictment brought once morest him by the special counsel. Jack SmithThe result is more delay before Trump’s day on trial.

The court’s decision in a second Trump-related case this term — aside from its decision to reject efforts to remove him from the ballot in the wake of his actions following the 2020 election — highlights the direct, and potentially uncomfortable, role that judges are playing in the November election.

“Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power grants a former president immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority,” the court’s head wrote, John Robertson behalf of the majority. “And he is entitled to at least presumed immunity from criminal prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts.”

Roberts was joined by the other five conservative justices. The three liberal justices dissented.

“Today’s decision to grant former presidents immunity from prosecution restructures the institution of the presidency. It is an affront to the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of government, that no man is above the law,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a scathing dissent.

Sotomayor, who read her dissent aloud in the courtroom, said the court’s protection of presidents “is as bad as it sounds, and it is baseless.”

Shortly following the decision, Trump wrote on his social network: “GREAT WIN FOR OUR CONSTITUTION AND OUR DEMOCRACY, PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!”

Smith’s office declined to comment on the decision.

The judges struck down one aspect of the indictment, finding that Trump is “totally immune” from prosecution for any conduct related to discussions with the Justice Department.

Trump is also “at least presumptively immune” from allegations that he tried to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to reject Democrat Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors can continue to try to argue that Trump’s pressure on Pence can still be part of the case once morest him, Roberts wrote.

The ruling is the last of this period and comes more than two months following the court heard the relevant arguments, much slower than in other landmark cases such as the Watergate tape recordings case.

Trump denies any wrongdoing and says this case and three others are a political ploy to try to prevent him from returning to the White House.

In May, Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a felony, in a New York court. He was found guilty of falsifying accounting records to cover up a payment to a porn star to keep quiet regarding a sexual relationship she says she had with him, which he denies. Three other criminal cases once morest Trump remain pending.

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