Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to recognize that he had total legal immunity as president.
Trump is asking the Supreme Court to grant him a sweeping immunity mandate as he runs to recapture the presidency.
"This may indeed be the most important US Supreme Court case in the history of our country," he told journalists at a panel organized by the Defend Democracy Project.
The Supreme Court will likely issue a decision in late April.
"The Supreme Court need not stray into other questions just because Trump has made it easy for them.
Persons:
Donald Trump, Jack Smith's, —, Trump, Jack Smith, Richard Nixon, David Frost, Smith, He's, Stormy Daniels, Todd Blanche, David Pecker, Tanya Chutkan, Barack Obama, Dana Verkouteren, doesn't, MANDEL NGAN, Nixon, Gerald Ford's, Ford, Leon Jaworski, indicting Nixon, Robert Ray, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Donald Ayer, Ronald Reagan, George H.W, Bush, it's, Justice Department's, Chutkan, BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, framers, Mark Meadows, Norm Eisen, Obama's
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Service, Justice Department, Capitol, Department, Air Force, Nixon, Trump, Prosecutors, AP, Getty, Independent, Department of Justice, Defend, Justice, White House
Locations:
Washington , DC, Georgia, Florida, New York, Manhattan, United States, AFP, Fulton County