Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance says a Supreme Court decision to grant Donald Trump immunity could cause huge damage.
Donald Trump’s attempt to gain immunity from prosecution must be shot down in the Supreme Court, a former U.S. attorney has said.
Joyce Vance wrote in a Substack post on her ‘Civil Discourse’ page that the Supreme Court “has to deny Trump’s motion to dismiss the charges, unless it wants to end democracy by giving a license to the next president to do whatever it takes to stay in power.”
Trump says he is immune from prosecution over charges he interfered in the 2020 election because the alleged offenses were committed when he was president.
Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, is charged in Washington D.C. with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. He denies all of the charges against him and says they are politically motivated.
The Supreme Court on Friday denied a writ of certiorari from Special Counsel Jack Smith asking for it to consider the issue of Trump’s immunity.
