American President’s do NOT have immunity from actions NOT offical in nature….
Bill Clinton didn’t….
Neither does Donald Trump the Supreme ‘s ruled ….
THAT isn’t stopping President Trump from using his job title to get over on federal and state civil cases and judgements….
President Donald Trump is renewing his push to end civil lawsuits seeking to hold him liable for the violence and disruption of Congress during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
Trump’s personal lawyers filed a brief on Friday evening arguing that he should be immune from civil claims because he was acting in his official capacity as president as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss. The filing focused on his speech to supporters in Washington shortly before a mob descended on the Capitol complex and also touched on his social media posts and efforts to persuade swing state officials to intervene on his behalf.
The latest court filing revives a legal fight that had been largely dormant for more than a year. While the US Justice Departmentdropped the federal criminal cases against Trump citing longstanding policy against prosecuting sitting presidents, the US Supreme Court has held that officeholders can still be forced to reckon with civil lawsuits as long as they involve private conduct.
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More than a year ago, a federal appeals court in Washington rejected Trump’s bid for early, absolute presidential immunity against the lawsuits. But the judicial panel also said that he could gather evidence and try to prove that he was, in fact, performing presidential functions at the time and make another bid to get the cases tossed out.
Trump’s lawyers and attorneys for the law enforcement officers and Democratic members of Congress who brought the cases spent the past year collecting documents and testimony. The plaintiffs are due to respond to Trump’s immunity bid by Feb. 28.
Trump’s lawyers argued in the latest brief that he only had to clear a “low bar” of showing that his actions after the 2020 election could be “reasonably” understood as official conduct.
Trump “is entitled to immunity even if just one reasonable understanding among many possible understandings of his actions is that they were an exercise of presidential authority,” his lawyers wrote….
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