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IANAL so could someone explain to me - does this ruling apply to the "porn actress hush money" trial or is it a separate issue?

(I'd like to think that there's no way it's an "official act" of a president, but again, IANAL.)




This is relating to 4 counts of election interference.

The court is granting him blanket immunity on one count, and the rest the prosecutors need to clarify that the crimes were outside of the duty of his office.


Kind of. From CNN: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-immunity-suprem...

> Donald Trump’s legal team will likely use Monday’s SCOTUS opinion as they challenge the New York hush money criminal verdict itself on appeal, a source familiar with their thinking tells CNN.

> Trump’s team thinks the SCOTUS option could be used to challenge portions of Hope Hicks testimony as well as some of the tweets entered in as evidence, according to the source familiar.

> CNN earlier reported the Trump team sees the opinion as “a major victory” because in addition to using it to try to get charges tossed, they can also use this opinion to get evidence related to official acts tossed in all cases — not just federal — which can hurt prosecutors’ ability to prove what charges are left.


Honestly the decision is written in a fairly accessible style. You could try to read it



No, Trump was a candidate, not President at the time of most (all?) of those crimes. They also yeah probably can't be considered official acts even by _this_ Court.


That can't be concluded yet. It will most likely be decided again by SCOTUS - but by then, Trump may well have assumed office and pardoned himself and anyone else involved.


Even this court would have a hard time concluding that acts taken while running for President are official acts.

But practically they've made the President a dictator, so yeah who's going to stop him if he wins.




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