The Supreme Court on Friday returned a criminal case against former president Donald Trump to a lower court, and ordered the United States government to make restitution to Trump for his trouble.
The High Court sent the case against Trump back to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, instructing it to handle the case in light of the Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity. The Court also ordered the government to reimburse Trump $3,232.80 for legal costs.
The D.C. Court of Appeals, in turn, handed the case back down to Judge Tanya Chutkan “for further proceedings consistent with the Supreme Court’s opinion.“
Chutkan had rejected the former president’s claim of immunity, saying Trump’s “four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow…
