Various respectable legal analysts weighed in on the Supreme Court’s ruling this week that presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts by noting that the decision severely damages the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump.
Justices voted 6-3 along ideological lines in the decision and sent the case in which Trump pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of unlawfully plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election back to a lower D.C. court for further review.
“The President is not above the law,” the ruling said. “But under our system of separated powers, the President may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts.”
Elie Honig, CNN’s senior legal analyst and former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern…
