The majority of judges have been “skeptical” of Trump’s request for immunity, but there have also been conservative judges critical of the prosecution’s handling of the case.
The Supreme Court of the United States was this Thursday “skeptical” about Donald Trump’s request to enjoy absolute judicial immunity for having been president of the country, but some judges have been inclined not to fully resolve the matter and return it to lower courts. .
In a historic hearing of more than two hours, the nine magistrates (six conservatives and three progressives) have questioned Trump’s lawyer, John Sauerand to the prosecutor Michael Dreeben about the Republican’s potential immunity.
The majority of judges have been “skeptical” of Trump’s request, considering that only actions inherent to the functions of a president are protected by immunity and not those that are personal in nature.
But there have also been conservative magistrates critical of the Prosecutor’s handling of the case and have suggested that they could return the case to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to determine whether Trump’s actions were public or private.
Thus, the Supreme Court of the United States has heard oral arguments to determine whether Trump has immunity from prosecution and can evade criminal trial over the assault on the Capitol because he was president of the country.
The hearing has taken place in parallel to a new day of the Trump trial in New York for falsifying accounting records to buy the silence of porn actress Stormie Daniels in the 2016 election campaign.
Trump is charged with four criminal counts in federal court in Washington for his attempted reverse the elections who lost in 2020 against Joe Biden and having instigated the 2021 Capitol assaultbut his defense requested that the trial be annulled, alleging that the Republican has immunity for having been president.
Both the judge handling the case and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed the petition, so Trump elevated the case to the Supreme Court, which admitted it for study in February.
It is unknown when the Supreme Court will issue its ruling on Trump’s immunity, although it usually publishes its decisions in June, before summer break.
The Prosecutor’s Office is pressing to make a quick decision so that preparations for the trial of the assault on the Capitol can be restarted, which It should have started last March 4.
Trump’s strategy, on the other hand, involves delay the process judicial until after the November elections, given that if he returns to the White House he could order the Department of Justice to shelve the federal charges against him.
The decision made by the high court, with a conservative majority and three of its nine judges appointed by Trump himselfwill not only affect the pending trial in Washington, but also the one in Florida for having illegally taken classified documents and that of Georgia for having tried to overturn the elections in that state.
Source: Eitb
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