•Decision should end all of crooked Joe Biden’s witch hunt against me, says former president
Wale Igbintade with Agency Report
In a 6-3 split decision, the US Supreme Court has held that former President Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for official actions taken as president, but lack such immunity for unofficial acts.
The justices, in a landmark ruling, recognised for the first time that former US presidents were shielded from prosecution for actions they took within their constitutional authority, as opposed to a private capacity.
The justices threw out a lower court’s decision rejecting Trump’s claim of immunity from criminal charges involving his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.
The six conservative justices were in the majority. The Supreme Court’s three liberals dissented.
The decision came in Trump’s appeal of a lower court ruling rejecting his immunity claim. The court decided the blockbuster case on the…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
