Instant Reaction: Supreme Court Immunity Ruling
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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The US Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump has some immunity from criminal charges for trying to reverse the 2020 election results, all but ensuring that a trial won’t happen before the November election. The justices, voting 6-3 along ideological lines, said a federal appeals court was too categorical in rejecting Trump’s immunity arguments, ruling for the first time that former presidents are shielded from prosecution for some official acts taken while in office. Bloomberg’s Paul Sweeney and Alix Steel get instant reaction.
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| 0:36.8 | Supreme Court ruling here partially backs Trump on immunity and the high court immunity ruling |
| 0:41.6 | likely to further delay a Trump trial. |
| 0:45.0 | So we'll see how this plays that we'll have more reporting coming up forward. |
| 0:50.0 | But certainly a significant ruling here, but we've've been expecting from the Supreme Court and |
| 0:54.7 | we got it today. So again another piece of presumably good news for former |
| 0:58.9 | President Donald Trump. Let's get some more analysis here. We bring on Howard Krent. |
| 1:03.4 | He's a professor of law at Chicago Kent College of Law. |
| 1:07.3 | How old, we just had a few minutes to kind of look at this ruling. |
| 1:09.8 | It seems like, I guess a partial victory for former President Trump, but that may be all that he needs. |
| 1:16.2 | Any early interpretation from you, Harold? |
| 1:19.2 | Yeah, I think that's right. |
| 1:20.0 | I mean, the court split the baby in a sense by saying that there was going to be absolute immunity |
| 1:24.8 | for some kind of presidential acts, those acts that fall within the court of his executive powers. |
| 1:31.9 | And for other acts, it's presumptive immunity which means |
| 1:34.8 | that the lower court will have to go through the indictment and the trial and |
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