Court should not grant Trump any broad-scale ‘immunity’
Washington Examiner - 2024-04-26T17:17:35.000Z

Several Supreme Court justices yesterday seemed disturbingly open to far too wide a scope of supposed presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. Almost nothing in the actual text of the Constitution provides for such immunity. At oral argument in Trump v. United States, Justice Clarence Thomas asked the right question of Trump’s attorney, John Sauer: “Could […]

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