L’The epilogue of the legal saga concerning Donald Trump will have to wait. The conservative-majority US Supreme Court on Monday postponed the 1is July lower courts the issue of Donald Trump’s criminal immunity as a former president, further delaying his federal trial in Washington, which now has no chance of taking place before the November 5 presidential election. And perhaps never, if Donald Trump is re-elected.
By a vote of six to three, the six conservative justices against the three progressives, the Court considered that “the president enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts”, but that he “is entitled to at least a presumption of immunity for his official acts”. Donald Trump, campaigning to return to the White House, immediately hailed a “great victory” for democracy. Joe Biden, for his part, denounced “a dark day for America” with a “dangerous precedent”.
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By deciding on February 28 to take up this question, and then scheduling the debates for nearly three months later, the highest court in the United States had already considerably postponed the federal trial of the former Republican president for attempting to illegally reverse the results of the 2020 election won by Joe Biden. The entire procedure for this trial, initially scheduled to start on March 4, and postponed indefinitely […] Read more
