I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Thursday, April 25th.

Here are today's headlines. Former President Donald Trump is facing criminal charges for allegedly trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

But Trump says he has presidential immunity from any such charges because he was operating in an official capacity and official acts as president are protected from prosecution.

Now the DC Circuit Court previously ruled that Trump is not immune from prosecution

but now the Supreme Court is weighing in.

The nine justices heard oral arguments today for the case and I caught up with Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow and the Vice President for the Institute for Constitutional Government at Heritage, John Malcolm, after the arguments concluded, and I asked

John a little bit about the case. He said he was surprised that Trump's lawyers

did not argue that the entire indictment against Trump should be dismissed.

Instead, the justices and lawyers spent a long time discussing what actions of the

president and in this case Trump specifically constitute as official actions

that may be immune from prosecution versus what acts are private and therefore not immune.

That's a big question that the justices now have to answer.

John told me that there are actually three questions,

including that one that the justices need to consider in this case.

One, is there a blanket immunity for a president's official actions because he was not

impeached and convicted by the Senate?

Two, what is he was not impeached and convicted by the Senate.

Two, what is a private action and what is an official action?

And three, if the court rejects John Sowers' absolute immunity argument, will there be any other kind of immunity that might attach to an official action.

I asked John how quickly a ruling might come down in the case and he said we might be

waiting a while.

I think it'll be very, very tough to get this case tried before the election.

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