The US Supreme Court has said Donald Trump and other former presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for official acts, in a major legal victory for the Republican White House candidate.
The decision makes it less likely that the Republican candidate will stand trial before he challenges Democratic President Joe Biden in November’s White House election.
It is the first time since the nation’s founding that the Supreme Court has declared former presidents can be shielded from criminal charges.
The justices found that a president is not immune for “unofficial acts”. The 6-3 ruling did not dismiss outright an indictment that charges Trump with plotting to overturn the 2020 election, but it did strip away key elements of the case against him.
The three liberal justices on the Supreme Court dissented strongly from the ruling, expressing “fear for our democracy”. “The President is now a king above the law,” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.
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That was a personal it was not and act too protect this country but and act too over throw this country a plot of conspiracy and the come it was such murder assault looting too interfere with constitution laws so u now going too just make up a law too suit yo self I guess u could have said nuke the white house u already said u could walk down the street and kill person and nothing will be done and about since the president has such power in office u say now u are not office then why can't Joe Biden say say lock u up until u are found not guilty are found guilty ant that how the law goes cause there is no such law under criminal act as a human being only a judge can permit immunity over a president cause there no one else above a president but a president who is in office now since they has the power over law but the way I see it only money can blind the eyes of justice ⚖️ and crook the togue it's why the poor is in prison ant no law they made the law for poor white s and black s the rich see us black as ni and the poor white as tra hs why ll black s think they were the only one slaves well u wrong about that and we still are live from check to check but live ING under a dicttader will be yo night mare u can be killed by any cause line up hitter did it north k do it why some may think they are rich than you better come up with ten billion are more
So corrupt, this is why I don't watch mainstream media anymore.
Trumps a badass
This is a joke the rule of law is a joke
A loser
What a joke he is making fools of them
that's my man
“Courts of Justice are corrupt. Rulers are actuated by desire for gain and love of sensual pleasure. Intemperance has beclouded the faculties of many so that Satan has almost complete control of them.
Jurists are perverted, bribed, deluded. Drunkenness and revelry, passion, envy, dishonesty of every sort, are represented among those who administer the laws.”
“Justice standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” Isaiah 59:14
E.G.W. The Great Controversy which was published in 1858
Trump should get that for practical reasons his followers need to vent not letting them vote for trump would be like denieying the riches smartest most dangerous group of voters there dope like the LA riots these people are originized fast competent but that large a size they will burn down Washington dont mess with these crazy let them vet trump has been a target ever since Nancy surfer girl ripped up trumps speech witnessed by even Mr Lee rocket man from northK that started this vendetta against Trump because Trump killed Hillary and people need to understand that hurt,no one's ever beet Clinton. That was a slam dunk but trump like koby nevermissed ashotthey hated him 6rings like that type of not like ,what did trump do to deserve this by starting this war they made trump like no other republican in past history except lincoln,arnt you afraid they will burn down wash if they do t get there way just because they did not have trumps names on super Tuesday day of salvation.
Trump needs protection because if they dont let the people vote for trump they will burn down washington these are the riches smartest dont f with me citizens your crazy to not let them vent concidering they only let trump be president for 2 years when mrs polosi riped trumps state of union in front of everyone even mr lee from nk
She started this war on trump to win the election before super tuesday.why they hate trump he the only one to beat a Clinton,not bill but the queen her self mrs clinton after 30 years beating everyone she get beat that sealed his fate but they went way to far by getting personal lucky for this country his wife stayed out of it smart move shes a real patioit.nopolitics like europen back stabbingwhere no holds bar to win bull crap please keep american politics out of our reps personal lives i dont want to know our country is better then that.
It was all planned. Appoint the Supreme Court judges who support you unequivocally and they will overrule all lower court decisions that have tried to hold you accountable. Boom! Fascism. This is exactly how communism and fascism constructs its pillars power. Add to this, your ‘Brownshirts’ like lauren Boebert and Marjory Taylor Green whose job it is, is to destabilise the GOP whilst disrupting Congress at every turn and then perpetuate lies in the biggest political forum in the US which is then constructed into a mainstream news narrative that supports Trump as some kind of saviour and you have exactly what Hitler, Mussolini and countless other communists and fascists did in the early part of the last century. Those political movements led to the deaths of 55 to 85 million people, 40 million of which were non-combatant civilians like you, your family and your friends. All of those people, lost forever, as the result of a few people who manipulated those who were so caught up in the cult, a phoney belief system, that they committed atrocities against fellow humans. What are MAGA calling for, public trials of those who allegedly stole an election, in 2020 when in reality, Trump lost that particular count in that particular state by around 12 thousand votes. In any other democratic country, the leadership role would have been cam.y handed over, calmly, but not with Trump, oh no, his plan had failed and he called upon the people to attack Capitol Hill. And they did, just like Hitler’s Brownshirts did. And when you have symbolic attacks like that, your fundamental right’s as a human are at risk. The USA is at risk of destabilising the world because China, Russia (Trump’s ally) and North Korea are watch and waiting because they know this their chance of taking territory without being challenged. NATO has been the most successful stabilising initiative since the Second World War. Trump wants the USA to pull out of NATO and perpetuates yet further lies that Americans are paying the most into NATO – another lie.
So, the USA will no longer be the big player at the table. Nobody outside the USA thinks Trump is capable and above all people are asking how it could come to this? Is it low academic education, is it constant media lies perpetuated by Trump supporting Media, or has America just lost its way? Have the stupid people simply become the majority as was predicted by political academics? One thing is for sure, when people can be easily manipulated, lied to and not know the difference between truth and lies, worship celebrities, and allow stupid people to make decisions on their behalf, your economy crashes (just like it did under Trump), investment in public infrastructure is stubbed (just like it did under Trump) and an utter low IQ moron who becomes president thinks out loud and thinks the way to cure Covid is to drink bleach (as Trump did), you know your looking at a fool. Except, in this instance Trump is a dangerous fool. He’s also a convicted rapist who escape jail because the American justice system failed Ms Daniels and then there’s Trumps regular trips on the Lolita Express to Jeffrey Epstein’s island where many young vulnerable girls were systematically raped. That story hasn’t cone out yet because Trump knows it’s his downfall, which is when asked if he would release the Epstein files he hesitated about them said ‘probably not” because he knows its over for him. They say Hitler was a charming guy by all those that met him and yet he carefully thought out how to exterminate over 6 million European Jews and other ‘dissidents’ without loosing a nights sleep. In 2025, if you are in one if those well educated group’s of Caucasian American, African American, Jewish, a different gender, Hispanic, your intelligence won’t save you because ignorance and stupidity will be celebrated under Trump and tyranny will reign supreme. MAGA is a very real insurgency movement and Project 2025, a very real strategy for political and legal reconstruction of the USA under Trump. Cast your vote wisely. It could very well be the last vote you get, or at least a vote that matters. Fascism doesn’t always arrive wearing jackboots. Please remember that. Education, enlightenment, honesty, decency, truth, freedom of expression and justice must prevail, else we set the clock back 500 years whilst playing with very dangerous weapons. The outcome is inevitable as it is with kids playing with matches.
America is not thy land of thy free America has most jails and prisons out of all nations and America government incarcerates more prisoners than china china people population is 23 billion americas people population is 368,000,000 as of 2023 census bourough count
Supreme Court justices must reverse ruling on presidential ammunity thy ruling is illegal and must be reversed in ruling supreme court justices by u.s law cannot make new laws govering we thy people citizens of united states of America courts can only enforce existing laws how a new law is revised in united states of America petition thy legislative branch then legislative branch passes thy new law bill to u.s senate then u.s senate passes thy new law bill to congress congress must have majority vote then congress passes thy new law bill to president of united states of
America where president either vetos thy new law bill or sighns thy new law bill into written law thy supreme court by passed this due process of united states of America law and supreme court made a illegal new law immunity for presidemts criminal actions no one is above thy laws govering states of America
Impeach the Supreme Court.
Forget bidens phone call to Ukrainian politician telling him to sack lawyer investigating his son hunter.
Immunity is immunity…the 7 wise men are indeed wise.
Criminal trump belongs in prison
This officially made him a King. SMH this isn’t good..
Bless him❤
The supreme court has embarrassed the USA in front of the whole world.
The supreme court continuing what trump started: The destruction of the United States.
This is surreal,surreal.
Groce,the freakangelicals
Never mind BBC….You have misinformed the bbc tax paying public.
Search Jeremy Brown January 6th. Jeremy, a former marine, was present at the January 6th protest but didn’t break any laws. He videoed FBI agents coming to his home to try and recruit him as an undercover agent but he refused and published the videos. A FBI swat team raided his home and planted illegal weapons and he has since been sentenced to 7 years in prison. Jeremy Brown is an American political prisoner like what would happen in old Russia.
Cool … just order the imprisonment of Trump !
Some immunity or absolute immunity ? I think you will find there is a quite a difference between the two.
The United States was conceived by an international group of cultists in very high places now commonly referred to as “Freemasons”.
They sought to create the United States as their “New Babylon”, and it’s been rigged since the beginning.
I’ll tell you this much in as simple of terms as any:
Empires > Democracies and Republics
Empires last millennia, Democracies, Rebublics, Hell, even Kingdoms come and go in a matter of centuries.
I’m here for the long-haul: let’s create an Empire that’ll last 1,000 years!
They all seem to be well tanned.
The immunity sounds a bit wishy-washy
Shame on BBC. They characterize Trump as interfering in elections. Shame on you.