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Supreme Court to hear Trump’s bid for criminal immunity

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Share In the final argument scheduled for its 2023-2024 term, the Supreme Court will hear argument on Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s historic bid for criminal immunity. The question before the justices is whether Trump can be tried on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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Missouri Court: Mark McCloskey Pardoned But Still Guilty

JonathanTurley

The department denied Guastello’s application for another liquor license based on the statute’s mandate that no person convicted of a liquor law violation could receive a liquor license. There has been much debate for the possible use of a preemptive self-pardon by Donald Trump if he were to be elected in 2024.

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The Constitutional Abyss: Justices Signal a Desire to Avoid Both Cliffs on Presidential Immunity

JonathanTurley

With cliffs to the left and the right, the justices are looking at a free-fall dive into the scope of constitutional and criminal law as they apply to presidential conduct. The government insisted there is an exception for such acts from the murder statute. They may be looking not for a foothold as much as a shorter drop.

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The Odor of Mendacity: 2024 Could Turn on Smell of Selective Prosecution from Georgia to New York

JonathanTurley

In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. She never specified any particular crime, just promising to bag Trump.

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“The Whole Enchilada”: Pundits Wrongly Claim the Mar-a-Lago Raid Could Disqualify Trump from Future Office

JonathanTurley

Elias was not alone citing the possible use of a Section 2071 charge to block Trump’s expected presidential run in 2024. There is ample reason to doubt that the presidency would be deemed barred by statute in this fashion. The same is presumably true under Article II when it comes to the chief executive.

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The Land that Law Forgot: The Supreme Court and the New York Legal Wasteland

JonathanTurley

The only way to get beyond the passage of the statute of limitations on the dead misdemeanor for falsifying business records had been to allege that the bookkeeping violation in question occurred to conceal another crime. On the New Yorker map circa 2024, once you cross the Hudson River eastward, you enter a legal wilderness.

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Supreme Court appears likely to side with Trump on some presidential immunity

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During more than two-and-a-half hours of oral argument, some of the court’s conservative justices expressed concern about the prospect that, if former presidents do not have immunity, federal criminal laws could be used to target political opponents. trial forward before the 2024 election.

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