Trump heads to US Supreme Court with a familiar claim: he is untouchable

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50% : Trump heads to US Supreme Court with a familiar claim: he is untouchableAndrew Chung and John KruzelFebruary 5, 2024 at 12:03 PMBy Andrew Chung and John KruzelWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump will try to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court this week to reverse a judicial decision to kick him off the ballot in Colorado over his actions concerning the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, arguing that the constitutional provision his opponents cite does not apply to him as a former president.
45% : "A win for Trump in the immunity case," Gorod said, "would be profoundly troubling regardless of who wins the election this November.
41% : As he fights four criminal cases and civil litigation in lower courts, Trump has repeatedly advanced a bold argument: that he is formally immune or otherwise not subject to these legal challenges.
40% : In a post nine days later, Trump said presidents need immunity even for "events that 'cross the line.'
40% : "Trump is advancing claims of immunity in other cases that could reach the Supreme Court, which historically has held that presidential immunity, while it exists, cannot be absolute.
35% : It may not be the only time Trump makes this type of assertion to the justices.
34% : "Trump appears obsessed with trying to place himself above the law.
27% : In that case, Trump contends that he is not subject to Section 3 because the president is not an "officer of the United States.
26% : Trump in the past has shown contempt for constraints on his actions.
25% : "The Supreme Court will confront novel questions when it reviews the Colorado Supreme Court's decision that Trump is disqualified from the presidency under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars any "officer of the United States" who "engaged in insurrection" from holding public office.
25% : Some legal experts expressed doubt that Trump will prevail at the Supreme Court on the immunity issue, but warned of the consequences if he does.
24% : In cases involving former Presidents Richard Nixon in 1982 and Bill Clinton in 1997, the court found that presidents have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits for acts undertaken in their official capacity, but not from suits concerning personal and unofficial conduct.
22% : In his effort to escape federal criminal charges involving his efforts to overturn his 2020 loss to Biden, a lawyer for Trump indicated to appellate judges that a president could order Navy commandos to assassinate a political rival and still be immune from prosecution unless first being impeached by the House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate.
22% : Trump has similarly claimed presidential immunity as a defense in a Georgia criminal case concerning election interference, civil lawsuits involving the Capitol riot, and in writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit accusing him of defaming her by denying in 2019 that he raped her in the 1990s.
15% : While Trump has not asserted sweeping presidential immunity as a defense in that case, the Supreme Court still may have to confront the issue, including in criminal and civil actions over his attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss and defamation claims by a woman who accused him of rape.

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