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Anonymous ID: 7b1cb1 July 5, 2024, 3:48 p.m. No.21145147   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Donald Trump's request to Florida court for halting classified docs case after immunity ruling stirs Internet

By Arunava Chakrabarty

Published on : 14:16 PST, Jul 5, 2024

 

WASHINGTON, DC: Former President Donald Trump has asked for a temporary halt to the case involving classified documents in light of the US Supreme Court's ruling this week that found presidents have substantial immunity for official acts that took place while they were in office.

 

Attorneys representing Trump requested that all proceedings in the case initiated by Special Counsel Jack Smith be put on hold, except Smith's request for a gag order, until the judge has had a chance to apply the Supreme Court's immunity ruling to the particular facts of the case.

 

What did the court filing state?

 

"Consistent with President Trump’s pending motion to dismiss based on Presidential immunity, the Supreme Court explained in Trump that it would ‘eviscerate the immunity we have recognized’" if a prosecutor could "do indirectly what he cannot do directly — invite the jury to examine acts for which a President is immune from prosecution to nonetheless prove his liability on any charge," the Friday court filing stated, per Fox News.

 

"Thus, ‘even when an indictment alleges only unofficial conduct,’ which is not the case here, prosecutors cannot ‘[u]se evidence' of official acts. Based on this reasoning, like the trial court in the Trump case, Your Honor must undertake the ‘necessarily factbound analysis’ regarding whether alleged conduct ‘is official or unofficial,’" it added.

 

Donald Trump referred to the filing as 'a really bad day for Deranged Jack Smith'

 

Donald Trump referred to the filing as "a really bad day for Deranged Jack Smith, the wacko prosecutor used for Crooked Joe Biden’s attack on his Political Opponent," in a Friday, July 5, post on Truth Social.

 

(and more)

 

https://news.meaww.com/donald-trumps-request-to-florida-court-for-halting-classified-documents-case-after-presidential-immunity-ruling-stirs-internet

 

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