Appealed to reject Donald Trump’s immunity request
This April 8, they asked to reject Donald Trump’s immunity request, whose claims seek to allow his presidential candidacy.
In a virtual election as the Republican Party’s nominee, an immunity request by Donald Trump seeks to pave the way.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith on Monday urged the Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump’s claims of broad immunity and deny the former president any opportunity to delay a trial on allegations that he tried to reverse the 2020 election results.
Trump’s position, Smith told the court, has no basis in the Constitution, the nation’s history or Americans’ understanding that presidents are not above the law.
So far there are a number of lawsuits against Donald Trump, and his opponents believe that someone with this record cannot be a presidential aspirant.
Even if the Supreme Court finds that former presidents are entitled to some sort of immunity, Smith said, at least some of Trump’s actions were private conduct, far removed from “official acts,” and could be prosecuted.
“The Founders never endorsed criminal immunity for a former president, and every president from the Founding through the modern era has known that after leaving office they faced potential criminal liability for official acts,” Smith told the court about Donald Trump’s immunity request.
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Appealed to reject Donald Trump’s immunity request
Smith’s filing came in what has become the most closely watched case of the Supreme Court’s current term.
A broad ruling in Trump’s favor could undermine not only the special prosecutor’s election subversion case, but a litany of other criminal charges pending against him.
For his part, Trump is warning the Supreme Court that rejecting his immunity request “would be the end of the presidency as we know it.”
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on April 25, with a decision expected by July.
While, on Donald Trump’s immunity request, for Smith a response is scheduled for next week.
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Smith sought to reject Trump’s argument that if there is a limited form of immunity for former presidents, that would require lower courts to review how that immunity might apply in Trump’s case. If a majority of the justices were to follow that path, it could significantly delay a trial.
But the special prosecutor asserted that many of Trump’s actions were private.
The Constitution, he said, does not give a president a role in certifying the choice of his successor.
So Trump’s efforts, Smith added, were part of “a private scheme with private actors to achieve a private end: the petitioner’s effort to remain in power by fraud.”
But the argument for Donald Trump’s immunity claim is based on his position as a former president.
Never before in U.S. history has a former president been charged with criminal acts, and perhaps. with only one exception.
That was socialist Eugene Debs, in 1920, who got more than a million votes while in jail for his opposition to World War I. He was a former president of the United States.
But no one has ever campaigned for president and been indicted on 88 criminal charges.
Thus, in unprecedented territory, one of the two leading contenders for the White House will be forced to sit in the dock in a courtroom during the week, and go out to campaign events only on weekends. But the tycoon has managed to make his trials part of his campaign.
