It just got harder for the Supreme Court to save Donald Trump from criminal prosecution for his involvement with the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In a straightforward opinion, a unanimous panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected Trump’s claim that a former president should be immune from being prosecuted criminally for conduct undertaken while in office.
The opinion is strong enough that it is unlikely to be reconsidered by the full DC Circuit. When the case goes to the Supreme Court, as it almost certainly will, the justices won’t be ...
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