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The concept of immunity from prosecution for a sitting president
Donald J. Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts—each count is a New York state charge for falsifying business records stemming from the so‑called "hush‑money" case—a verdict recorded by the Man...
Donald J. Trump was criminally convicted by a New York jury on May 30, 2024, on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments tied to the 2016 election, making him the...
No felony conviction of Donald J. Trump has been overturned or vacated on appeal as of the reporting in these sources; he remains convicted on 34 counts out of the Manhattan hush‑money trial, has been...
A sitting U.S. president suing the federal government has been effectively without precedent in , but that changed with ’s January 2026 lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury seeking at least $10 billio...
Only one former U.S. president has been criminally convicted in modern history: Donald J. Trump, whose 2024 conviction on business-records felonies was widely described as the first conviction of a fo...
The ’s 6–3 decision in v. established a new constitutional framework granting former presidents absolute immunity for a narrow set of “core” presidential functions, presumptive immunity for a broader ...
was convicted by a jury on May 30, 2024, of 34 counts arising from the same scheme—each count was a first‑degree falsifying business records charge related to payments made to influence the —so the sh...
There is no authoritative single count of how many times President Trump has “acted unlawfully” in his current term because unlawfulness is a legal determination made case-by-case by courts, and many ...
Yes — President Trump can and has been appealing his New York felony convictions, and his legal team can seek review by the U.S. Supreme Court; whether the justices will take the case and reverse the ...
The legal standards for charging with a crime rest on a mix of constitutional text, judicial doctrine about , practice, and prosecutorial judgment: a former president is not categorically immune, but ...
An appeals court reversal of Donald Trump’s New York conviction would trigger a predictable mix of immediate legal maneuvers and longer political theater: the defense would press for dismissal or tran...
’s written opinion affirmed the district court’s for , holding that the trial court’s evidentiary rulings fell “within the range of permissible decisions” and that any asserted errors were harmless; t...
Legal scholars and advocates propose a mix of s, targeted statutes and jurisdictional maneuvers to blunt a recent broad reading of , arguing can reclaim regulatory space by clarifying criminal exposur...
in or dismissal of criminal charges does not shut down all legal or political consequences: federal and state prosecutors may still pursue charges in many circumstances, constitutional disqualificatio...
The federal criminal case charging Donald J. Trump for efforts to overturn the 2020 election through the January 6 events is not an active, pending prosecution in Washington, D.C.; the indictment that...
The Supreme Court’s July 1, 2024 decision created a two-tiered immunity rule that grants former presidents absolute immunity for acts within their “exclusive” constitutional sphere and at least presum...
“without prejudice” can generally be refiled later because that dismissal leaves the government free to bring the same charges again, but whether refiling is legally viable after a depends critically ...
civil jury found liable for sexually abusing writer in the 1990s and for defaming her when he denied the allegation years later; the verdict rested on Carroll’s battery and defamation theories under l...
, the most concrete criminal adjudication tied to was his May 30, 2024 conviction in on 34 counts of first‑degree falsifying business records; that verdict produced appeals and post‑verdict litigation...
sued for defamation in in January 2017 after publicly accusing him of sexual misconduct, appeared in hearings connected to that suit, and ultimately dropped the case in November 2021; the sources revi...