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The concept of presidential immunity and its implications on the accountability of presidents, particularly in the context of Donald Trump's legal issues.
has been criminally convicted once: a jury found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records tied to payments made during the 2016 campaign, a verdict reached on May 30, 2024 . That convict...
Donald Trump entered 2026 with the legal landscape largely reshaped by election returns, court rulings, and at least one completed state prosecution: he was convicted in the New York falsifying-busine...
Yes — against were formally dropped, but the picture is fragmented: moved to dismiss the two federal criminal prosecutions (the classified-documents case and the federal election-interference case) in...
’s decision in v. did not “reverse” into nonexistence; rather it upended lower-court rulings that denied broad immunities and instead established a new framework granting presidents absolute immunity ...
The did not rule against 's immunity claim; instead, in a divided decision the Court recognized substantial protections for former presidents from criminal prosecution for "official acts," including f...
The ’s July 1, 2024 decision in v. did not simply “reject” or fully endorse former President Trump’s broad immunity theory; the Court issued a divided 6–3 opinion carving out substantial immunity for ...
did not simply reject or accept "’s final immunity claims" in an all-or-nothing way; in the Court issued a 6–3 opinion that carved out robust constitutional immunities for former presidents with respe...
The Supreme Court can review Donald Trump’s appeals in the E. Jean Carroll litigation by granting a petition for a writ of certiorari, but it will only do so if the case presents a significant federal...
Courts have issued a mix of rulings on obstruction claims tied to Donald Trump: the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. United States limited prosecutors’ reach by finding certain alleged acts protected by...
The Supreme Court held in Trump v. United States that former presidents enjoy at least presumptive immunity from federal criminal prosecution for "official acts" taken while in office and absolute imm...
Donald Trump faced four criminal indictments brought in 2023 across two federal and two state venues that together originally alleged 88 counts; by the end of 2025 those prosecutions had produced one ...