US Supreme Court in Trump ruling declares ex-presidents have immunity for official acts

WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court found on July 1 that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for official actions taken as president, but can for private acts, in a landmark ruling recognising for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution.a lower court’s decision rejecting Trump’s claim of immunity

Trump hailed the ruling in a social media post, writing: “Big win for our Constitution and Democracy. Proud to be an American!” Trump is the Republican candidate challenging Democratic President Biden in the Nov 5 US election in a rematch from four years ago. Professor of law at the UCLA School of Law Rick Hasen and a critic of Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat said: “The Supreme Court has put out a fact-intensive test on the boundaries of the president’s immunity – with a huge thumb on the scale favouring the president’s immunity – in a way that will surely push this case past the election.”

on 34 counts of falsifying documents to cover up hush money paid to a porn star to avoid a sex scandal before the 2016 election. Trump also faces criminal charges in two other cases. He has pleaded not guilty in those and called all the cases against him politically motivated.

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