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Overall, Trump granted fewer clemencies than many of the modern presidents during his first term. [11] Since 1921, only two Presidents granted clemency on fewer occasions than Trump. In Trump's first term, he granted clemency 237 times, compared with about 78 by George H.W. Bush and about 200 by George W. Bush. Of the pardons and commutations ...
One headline in The Washington Post ' s opinion section reads, “The Supreme Court rules to restore the monarchy,” [109] while The Onion ran stories with headlines such as “Supreme Court Rules Trump Has Immunity For Any Crime Committed Between 9 And 5” [110] and “New Trump Ad Shows Montage Of People He’ll Kill If Elected.” [111]
Former President Donald Trump this week made his way to Wisconsin, a battleground state crucial to both his 2016 win and 2020 loss. The stakes, in other words, are high. So he made a few big ...
Trump made clear in office that he'd fight legislation hamstringing qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that bars victims from suing state and local government employees if the way in which ...
Smith, who brought the charges against Trump, wrote to the Supreme Court that even if it finds that some level of immunity exists for official acts, a trial could still get underway focused on ...
Before the ink was dry on the Supreme Court’s extreme presidential immunity opinion, former President Donald Trump launched a Hail Mary to derail state cases — but it won’t work, writes ...
In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle of federal constitutional law that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from lawsuits for damages unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known". [1]
On Monday, the court’s conservative majority ruled in a 6-3 decision that Trump is immune from prosecution for “official” acts performed as president, as outlined in the indictment against him.