In what may be one of the most important and historic cases the U.S. Supreme Court has ever handled, the court heard almost three hours of oral arguments Thursday in Trump v. United States, the presidential immunity case.
In a spirited discussion in the final case to be heard by the court before its summer recess, former Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben, arguing on behalf of special counsel Jack Smith, and John Sauer, arguing on behalf of former President Donald Trump, answered an intense series of questions from all of the justices on whether a former president enjoys immunity from criminal prosecution for official actions he took while he was president.
Trump was not in the audience at the Supreme Court because the judge in his New York criminal prosecution, Juan Merchan, refused to recess the trial Thursday and required Trump to be present in his…
