Supreme Court set to rule Monday on Trump presidential immunity claims in federal election interference case
The Supreme Court is set to rule Monday on whether former President Donald Trump has sweeping presidential immunity that would shield him from prosecution related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to rule Monday on whether former President Donald Trump has sweeping presidential immunity that would shield him from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election.
The justices have left the high-profile case for their final decision day before summer break. It was the last one argued this term.
There are three other cases set to come up on Monday, two dealing with Republican-backed state laws seeking to regulate social media platforms and the other on when companies can challenge federal agency rule-making.
On Friday, the court ruled in a separate case related to Jan. 6 criminal prosecutions, but the narrow decision is unlikely to have much impact on the former president's criminal case.
Trump was charged by special counsel Jack Smith in August 2023 with taking part in three criminal conspiracies: “to defraud the United States by using dishonesty, fraud and deceit” to obstruct the electoral vote process; “impede the January 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected results of the presidential election are counted and certified”; and working “against the right to vote and to have that vote counted.”
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