A legal journalist described the liberal justice’s dissent as “one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I’ve ever encountered.” In her dissent against the U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday ruling in Trump v. United States, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor listed several acts that she argued the high court’s right-wing supermajority has effectively sanctioned as unprosecutable […]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution for any official acts he undertook while in office to upend his 2020 reelection loss but no immunity for unofficial acts. The top U.S. court left it up to lower courts to decide under which instances Trump could be prosecuted. […]
“Corruption on the Supreme Court has gotten out of control, and Justice Thomas is the poster child.” More than 165,000 people have signed a petition demanding that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from a pending case on whether former President Donald Trump should be immune from criminal charges stemming from his attempt to overturn his 2020 loss. The […]
“Trump’s legal theory defies common sense and would enable an almost limitless tyranny,” warned Public Citizen’s president. Monday was the deadline for amicus briefs in Donald J. Trump v. United States, and several organizations and experts took the opportunity to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the former Republican president and current candidate’s immunity claim. Trump is claiming […]