The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case has rejected Trump’s motion to dismiss the case based on presidential immunity.
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case has rejected Trump’s motion to dismiss the case based on presidential immunity.
The ruling, from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, came in a strongly worded opinion Friday evening.
„Whatever immunities a sitting President may enjoy, the United States has only one Chief Executive at a time, and that position does not confer a lifelong ‚get-out-of-jail-free‘ pass,“ Judge Chutkan wrote. „Former Presidents enjoy no special conditions on their federal criminal liability,“
„Defendant’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 citizens,“ wrote Chutkan.
