US President Donald Trump provided an update on the so-called Operation Warp Speed program, a joint initiative between the Department of Defense and HHS that has struck deals with multiple drugmakers to help speed up the search for treatments for the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the White House said today. Lecture delivered at the Garden, Washington, USA, November 13, 2020.
Carlos Baria
The Supreme Court is considering former President Donald Trump’s immunity from federal prosecution on charges of criminal election interference.
In preliminary hearings, Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared skeptical of Trump’s lawyers’ argument that the president should be immune from prosecution for any official acts while in office.
“It is difficult for me to imagine that anyone would justify the creation of false documents, the filing of false documents, the ordering of the assassination of a competitor, the acceptance of bribes and the countless laws that can be broken for personal gain that were justified by the President or by any public official,’” Sotomayor told Trump attorney John Sauer.
The question before the court – whether a former president can be sued for official acts while in office – is a matter of life and death for special counsel Jack Smith’s case against Trump for illegally overturning the loss of the 2020 election Joe Biden.
The high court’s final ruling has far-reaching implications for Trump’s other pending criminal cases, which hinge on his conduct in the White House.
In addition to Smith’s case in Washington, D.C., Trump has been accused of trying to reverse his 2020 loss to Biden in the state of Georgia.
He is currently on trial in Manhattan Supreme Court on charges of falsifying business records and, after becoming president in 2017, paid a porn star $130,000 in hush money to his then-lawyers.
Trump did not hear oral arguments before the Supreme Court because he was required to attend a criminal trial in New York.
At 10 a.m., lawyers for Trump and Smith began arguments before nine judges, three of whom were nominated by Trump during his presidency.
The Supreme Court agreed to take the case after two lower courts rejected Trump’s claim that he was immune from Smith’s prosecution.
On December 11, 2020, in Washington, United States, supporters of US President Donald Trump went to the Supreme Court to review a lawsuit filed by Texas to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory.
Joshua Roberts
By weighing the immunity issue, the high court effectively delayed the election meddling case for months, while it is pending in the US District Court in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court can rule on issues quickly but often reserves its biggest cases. End-of-semester judgments are usually completed in late June or early July.
Even if a judge rejects Trump’s arguments and allows Smith’s case to move forward, the case likely won’t go to trial until after the Nov. 5 presidential election. Republican presidential candidate Trump has sought to delay four pending criminal trials until after the election.
Federal election interference trial scheduled for March 4.
Some legal experts have criticized Trump after the slam court upheld Trump’s immunity claim after an appeal to a federal appeals court in Washington rejected it in early February.
Norm Eisen, an attorney and former aide to House Democrats during Trump’s first impeachment, said at a news conference Wednesday that the Supreme Court has “unduly delayed this matter.”
The complaint filed by Smith charges Trump with four felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States. Smith claimed that Trump sought to exploit Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, spreading false claims of election fraud, organizing a swarm of pro-Trump voters in states that Biden had won, and violent mobs coming to overturn the results. 2020 elections. .
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