The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity for official acts has renewed calls for impeachment or "aggressive oversight" against members of the court.
Attorneys for Donald Trump asked a judge on Friday to pause his case on charges of mishandling top secret documents, citing a Supreme Court ruling that a former president has broad immunity from prosecution.
Former President Trump is beginning to leverage the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling in his classified documents criminal case. In court papers filed Friday, Trump asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to halt most proceedings in the case until she resolves Trump’s immunity defense.
In a blockbuster decision Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump is entitled to presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts taken while in office.
Donald Trump has asked to pause the prosecution over his alleged mishandling of classified information after the US Supreme Court ruled the former president was potentially immune from criminal charges related to official acts.