WASHINGTON — Lawsuits seeking to hold Donald Trump personally accountable for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol can move forward after the former president chose not to take his broad immunity claim to the Supreme Court.
Trump had a Thursday deadline to file a petition at the Supreme Court contesting an appeals court decision from December that rejected his immunity arguments, but he did not do so.
The appeals court made it clear that Trump could still claim immunity later in the proceedings in three cases brought by Capitol Police officers and members of Congress.
He wants to do it later to strategically delay the trial.
He wants to delay it till the Supreme Court is under the thumb of Emperor Trump
That isn’t now?
They’re gonna have to sink to even lower levels to handle the bullshit Trump has in store for them.
This could be true
The appeals court made it clear that Trump could still claim immunity later in the proceedings in three cases brought by Capitol Police officers and members of Congress.
but the Paula Jones rulings are pretty clear that he doesn’t have immunity
Appeals cost money.
and you’re often expected to escrow the adjudicated fines until the appeals are decided.
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Did he choose not to appeal, or did his idiot lawyers just miss the deadline?
He might not be able to get a member of the Supreme Court Bar to take his case. The requirements are:
To qualify for admission to the Bar of this Court under Rule 5, an applicant must have been admitted to practice in the highest court of a State, Commonwealth, Territory or Possession, or the District of Columbia for a period of at least three years immediately before the date of application; must not have been the subject of any adverse disciplinary action pronounced or in effect during that three-year period, and must appear to the Court to be of good moral and professional character.
It’s a low bar but all his lawyers end up getting disciplined by the judge at some point.
How many lawyers are there that have been in a lawsuit in front of a state Supreme Court in the last three years?
I think it’s a pretty ingenious solution because anybody who has that qualification is not one that wants to throw it away.
I’m assuming he can’t afford it now
God this all sounds awful. First that this is about civil suits? The Jan 6 violent insurrection being handled in civil court?? That they explicitly allow his appeal for the criminal case in the future. And that the argument appeals courts are using to deny his immunity claim isn’t that the President doesnt have carte blanche to do whatever crimes they want, but that he wasnt acting as President at the time. Implying that Presidents do have a free ticket to murder.
Which tees up a lob ball for the Supreme Court when he appeals the immunity ruling for the criminal case, that he was still president during Jan 6. All this shit just seems deliberately corrupt from all involved. From the criminal, to the prosecutors, to the courts.
There are criminal cases too.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — Lawsuits seeking to hold Donald Trump personally accountable for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol can move forward after the former president chose not to take his broad immunity claim to the Supreme Court.
The appeals court made it clear that Trump could still claim immunity later in the proceedings in three cases brought by Capitol Police officers and members of Congress.
Trump’s lawyers argued that any actions he took on Jan. 6 fall under the scope of his responsibilities as president, thereby granting him immunity from civil liability.
Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected that argument, ruling that Trump was acting in his role as a political candidate running for office, not as president.
The lead plaintiff in the civil immunity case is James Blassingame, a Capitol Police officer who was injured in the Jan. 6 riot.
The legal arguments being made by Trump are similar to those he is making in his criminal case as he seeks to prevent a trial from taking place before the November election.
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That’s good, that makes these timelines even more likely.
