{"id":122493,"date":"2024-11-05T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122493"},"modified":"2024-11-05T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T16:11:09","slug":"us-supreme-court-trump-has-absolute-immunity-for-official-acts-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122493","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court:  Trump has \u201cabsolute immunity\u201d for official acts | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cwWP0-QFYBo?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>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.<\/p>\n<p>The decision makes it less likely that the Republican candidate will stand trial before he challenges Democratic President Joe Biden in November&#8217;s White House election.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time since the nation&#8217;s founding that the Supreme Court has declared former presidents can be shielded from criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>The justices found that a president is not immune for &#8220;unofficial acts\u201d.   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.<\/p>\n<p>The three liberal justices on the Supreme Court dissented strongly from the ruling, expressing \u201cfear for our democracy\u201d.   \u201cThe President is now a king above the law,\u201d wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cwWP0-QFYBo\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122493\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}