Former President Trump won a victory on Monday when the Supreme Court in Colorado restored him to the presidential race and rejected a 14th Amendment challenge to his bid for the White House.
But President Trump’s attention quickly turned to more pressing Supreme Court cases. The case concerns whether President Trump will face criminal charges for his efforts to overturn his 2020 re-election loss.
“I have a lot of respect for the Supreme Court and I just want to thank them for working so quickly, so diligently and so brilliantly,” Trump said in a speech at his Mar-a-Lago mansion. , this is a unifying factor.” .
“I hope the judge will take on other cases, but the president in particular needs to be given full immunity,” he added. “They have to be allowed to do their job. If they’re not allowed to do their job, that’s not what the founders wanted, but perhaps even more so. Importantly, it would be terrible for the country.”
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that Colorado cannot disqualify President Trump from voting based on the 14th Amendment’s anti-insurrection clause, effectively ending the long-running effort. .
During his remarks at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump spent a relatively short amount of time discussing the Colorado decision announced Monday morning and spoke relatively little about the need to grant the president full immunity. He spoke at length.
“If a president doesn’t have complete immunity, he’s not really president,” Trump said, suggesting that whoever is in the White House doesn’t have the “courage” to make difficult decisions.
“They have to make decisions, and they have to be freed from all the fear that might reign when they leave office,” Trump added.
The Supreme Court last week agreed to take up the question of whether President Trump is immune from prosecution in a lawsuit related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The high court’s order sets oral arguments for the week of April 22nd, setting an expedited timeline with a landmark decision likely to be handed down by the end of June or sooner.
If the conservative-dominated court ultimately sides with Mr. Trump, as many legal experts predict, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution will move forward and he will be appointed as the judge in the case. will be given leeway to schedule a trial before the November election.
President Trump faces 91 felony charges in four different cases. A Washington, D.C. lawsuit, another Georgia lawsuit over his efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, a New York City lawsuit over alleged hush money during the 2016 election, and over retention of classified materials. There’s a Florida lawsuit. After leaving the White House.
“If the president has done a good job, he should be free and clear and, frankly, he should be congratulated for doing a good job,” Trump said Monday. “He was not indicted four times, was not pursued civilly, and was not required to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.”
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