Understanding Trump’s Immunity Case Before Supreme Court

The 9 Supreme Court justices have a serious query earlier than them. Is a present or former president immune from prosecution? 

Former President Donald Trump is going through prosecution for alleged efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election. Trump argues that his actions as president are shielded from prosecution underneath presidential immunity. 

Trump lawyer John Sauer argued Thursday earlier than the Supreme Court that except a president is first impeached and convicted by the Senate, he’s immune from prosecution, explains John Malcolm, senior authorized fellow and vp for the Institute for Constitutional Government at The Heritage Foundation. (Heritage based The Daily Signal in 2014.)

Now, Malcolm says, the justices should reply three questions so as to make a decision in the Trump case: 

One, is there a blanket immunity for a president’s official actions as a result of he was not impeached and convicted by the Senate?

Two, what’s a non-public motion and what’s an official motion?

And three, if the court docket rejects John Sauer’s, absolute immunity argument, will there be another form of immunity which may connect to an official motion?

Malcolm joins this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to debate how the Supreme Court justices might rule primarily based on the questions they requested Thursday throughout oral argument. 

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