{"id":9749,"date":"2024-02-14T05:16:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T23:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/trump-files-presidential-immunity-appeal-with-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T05:16:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T23:46:01","slug":"trump-files-presidential-immunity-appeal-with-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/trump-files-presidential-immunity-appeal-with-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Files Presidential Immunity Appeal with Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Donald Trump requested that the U.S. Supreme Court block a ruling from the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which decided that he does not have presidential immunity in the January 6 case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConducting a months-long criminal trial of President Trump at the height of election season will radically disrupt President Trump\u2019s ability to campaign against President Biden\u2014which appears to be the whole point of the Special Counsel\u2019s persistent demands for expedition,\u201d the filing read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s claim that Presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for their official acts presents a novel, complex, and momentous question that warrants careful consideration on appeal,\u201d Trump\u2019s lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/23\/23A745\/300410\/20240212154110541_2024-02-12%20-%20US%20v.%20Trump%20-%20Application%20to%20S.%20Ct.%20for%20Stay%20of%20D.C.%20Circuit%20Mandate%20-%20Final%20With%20Tables%20and%20Appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe panel opinion below, like the district court, concludes that Presidential immunity from prosecution for official acts does not exist at all. This is a stunning breach of precedent and historical norms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 234 years of American history, no President was ever prosecuted for his official acts,\u201d the lawyers asserted. \u201cNor should they be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts gave Special Counsel Jack Smith one week to respond to Trump\u2019s filing.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS: Trump asks the Supreme Court of the United States to stay DC Cir. mandate pending the filing of a petition for writ of certiorari. <\/p>\n<p>The application for stay at the high court follows the DC Cir.\u2019s denial of Trump\u2019s Presidential immunity claims. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/95dcjrAGDh\">pic.twitter.com\/95dcjrAGDh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnaBower\/status\/1757156184438550945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>American Faith <a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/appeals-court-rules-trump-does-not-have-presidential-immunity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that a federal appeals court ruled that there is no basis for Trump to claim presidential immunity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter,\u201d the panel wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant,\u201d they added in the opinion. \u201cBut any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as President no longer protects him against this prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt bottom, former President Trump\u2019s stance would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three Branches,\u201d the panel noted. \u201cPresidential immunity against federal indictment would mean that, as to the President, the Congress could not legislate, the Executive could not prosecute and the Judiciary could not review.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/trump-files-presidential-immunity-appeal-with-supreme-court\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump requested that the U.S. Supreme Court block a ruling from the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which decided that he does not have presidential immunity in the January 6 case. \u201cConducting a months-long criminal trial of President Trump at the height of election season will radically disrupt President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}