Special counsel Jack Smith urges Supreme Court to reject Trump's claim of immunity
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The Framers never endorsed criminal immunity for a former President, and all Presidents from the Founding to the modern era have known that after leaving office they faced potential criminal liability for official acts, Smith told the court.
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Trump filed his own initial written arguments last month, claiming that future presidents would be vulnerable to de facto blackmail and extortion while in office if the court denied him immunity. Past presidents, he said, could have been charged for all sorts of controversial actions they took in office.
Smith pushed back on that argument in his latest brief.
The effective functioning of the presidency does not require that a former president be immune from accountability for these alleged violations of federal criminal law, Smith wrote Monday. To the contrary, a bedrock principle of our constitutional order is that no person is above the law including the president.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/08/politics/special-counsel-jack-smith-supreme-court-trump-immunity-claim/index.html
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