What Supreme Court's Immunity Ruling Means For Trump's Second Term

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Trump being able to use the presidential immunity ruling in office comes as courts are still reckoning with how the decision applies to his ongoing cases.
45% : Trump and his lawyers, for their part, have held an expansive view of presidential immunity, with Trump claiming before the Supreme Court's ruling that presidents should have immunity even for actions that "cross the line."
37% : Attorney D. John Sauer, arguing for Trump, made a similar case when the immunity issue went before the Supreme Court and appeals court, suggesting the ex-president's legal team believed immunity should even apply in the case of assassinating political rivals or ordering a coup.
36% : The court ruled in 1982's Nixon v. Fitzgerald that the president does have immunity from any civil liability for official acts in office, meaning Trump can't be sued for anything he does as president within the scope of his official duties.
34% : Trump long argued he had presidential immunity as civil and criminal cases against him piled up, though the ex-president had little luck in court before the Supreme Court's ruling.
33% : Though they ultimately ended up siding with Trump on granting some degree of immunity, even conservative justices on the high court expressed skepticism of Sauer's claims during oral arguments in the immunity case, with Justice Samuel Alito questioning whether the attorney's "very robust" definition of immunity was "necessary.
33% : That's likely to take a while to decide, though, as even if it survives despite Trump's election, the case is nevertheless expected to remain paused until Trump leaves office in 2029.
30% : If that doesn't work, Trump already has a pending motion in the case asking for the charges to be thrown out because of presidential immunity.
30% : U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan and a panel of appeals judges rejected Trump's immunity claims in his federal case for trying to overturn the 2020 election, before Trump took his case to the Supreme Court and it ruled in his favor.
28% : Justices ultimately left it up to the lower courts to decide which charges against Trump are still valid to move forward, so there's not really a clear sense yet of
27% : Trump also faces civil liability for his role in Jan. 6 as he faces lawsuits over the riot by Democratic lawmakers and Capitol police officers, and courts have already ruled that his presidential immunity argument doesn't apply in those cases.
25% : The Supreme Court's ruling's immunity protections only extend to Trump, meaning that any aides who help him carry out unlawful acts could still face prosecution for doing so.How far a future President Trump will be able to go without facing consequences.
18% : Trump can't pardon himself in that case or sway prosecutors to drop their case, though his lawyers are reportedly set to ask the court to dismiss the charges because of Trump's presidency.
17% : The Supreme Court's ruling giving President-elect Donald Trump some immunity from criminal prosecution has already helped the ex-president out in court, but it could also embolden Trump going into his second term, as the former and future president can take more extreme acts as president without worrying if they may be illegal.
8% : Trump had argued it should be thrown out, as even though much of the conduct he was charged with was based on activities before he took office, there was evidence used at trial that Trump argued shouldn't have been admitted.
7% : That means Trump could still be sued for actions he took as a private citizen, and ongoing civil litigation against him can keep moving forward -- including writer E. Jean Carroll's two defamation cases and the civil fraud case against Trump and his business associates, all of which Trump is now appealing.

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