Live updates: Court rules Trump does not have immunity from prosecution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "Here, former President Trump's actions allegedly violated generally applicable criminal laws, meaning those acts were not properly within the scope of his lawful discretion," they wrote, meaning that existing case law "provide him no structural immunity from the charges in the Indictment.
49% : The immunity question is ultimately expected to end up before the Supreme Court, one of several consequential cases the high court will take up related to Trump this year.
47% : Some background: Trump faces four counts from special counsel Jack Smith's election subversion charges, including conspiring to defraud the United States and to obstruct an official proceeding.
42% : Trump quickly appealed that decision to the DC Circuit, which agreed to expedite its review of the matter.
37% : "The three appeals court judges said that Trump asked them to find "for the first time that a former President is categorically immune from federal criminal prosecution for any act conceivably within the outer perimeter of his executive responsibility," they wrote.
34% : Appeals court unanimously rules Trump is not immune from criminal prosecutionThe three-judge appeals court panel who issued the ruling Tuesday includes two judges, J. Michelle Childs and Florence Pan, who were appointed by Joe Biden and one, Karen LeCraft Henderson, who was appointed by George H.W. Bush.
32% : Trump has argued that he was working to "ensure election integrity" as part of his official capacity as president, and therefore he is immune from criminal prosecution for trying to overturn the election results.
27% : His lawyers have also asserted that because Trump was acquitted by the Senate during impeachment proceedings, he is protected by double jeopardy and cannot be charged by the Justice Department for the same conduct.

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