Trump immunity case suggests new role for supreme court: kingmaker
Oral arguments over former president’s claim of immunity seem to have left Trump happier than the justice department
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Oral arguments over former president’s claim of immunity seem to have left Trump happier than the justice department
(CNN) — The Supreme Court appeared ready to reject former President Donald Trump’s claims of sweeping immunity and the broad protections he has sought to shut<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/supreme-court-hears-arguments-over-trump-presidential-immunity-claim/">Read More</a>
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan briefly stunned John Sauer, Donald Trump's attorney, by asking if the president could stage a coup.
The justices seemed to focus more on hypothetical future cases rather than the case immediately before them.
The conservative justices seemed likely to confer broad presidential immunity from prosecution — and in a way that would further delay any federal trial.