The US Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling on Monday on former President Donald Trump’s immunity claims.
The measure will directly impact cases in which the Republican is being investigated for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden.
Republican Senator JD Vance, one of Donald Trump’s potential vice presidential running mates, posted on X that the decision is “a huge victory, not just for Trump, but for the rule of law.”
“I’m still digesting it, but this could very well destroy Jack Smith’s entire case against the president,” he said.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, also a potential Trump running mate, called the case “a huge victory” for the country.
“This is a great victory for America [Estados Unidos] and it’s a huge victory for the Constitution. And so it’s a bad day for Biden’s war campaign against President Trump,” Burgum said in an interview on Fox News.
The Republican governor argued that the court’s decision “is not a decision for President Trump” but “for presidents.”
“This decision also protects Joe Biden from immunity from official acts in office and we need to have immunity for presidents of the United States, especially when we are in times, as we are now, where we are waging these proxy wars around the world,” he stressed.
Burgum further accused Democrats of being upset about the decision because “they see it as an interruption of what they were really doing, which was a political war” against Trump.
The court’s decision is likely to further delay the trial on federal election subversion charges against the former president.
Remember the case
The United States Supreme Court released a decision on Monday (1st) determining that former President Donald Trump has limited presidential immunity in relation to acts committed while he was in charge of the White House.
That leaves the Republican able to claim criminal immunity for some of the actions he took in the final days of his presidency — a move that is likely to further delay the trial he faces on federal criminal charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election results.
That ruling — which was seen as the most closely watched case at the court this year — overturns a lower-court ruling by a federal appeals court in February.
That court had concluded that Trump did not have immunity for alleged crimes he had committed during his presidency to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Source: CNN Brasil
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