In a new court filing, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office argues that former President Donald Trump’s criminal case and guilty verdict are not affected by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity.
“That decision has no bearing on this prosecution and would not support vacatur of the jury’s unanimous verdict (let alone dismissal of the indictment) even if its reasoning did apply here,” reads the July 24 brief.
In a separate criminal case against former President Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that presidents enjoy absolute immunity for core constitutional conduct, presumptive immunity for official acts, and no immunity for unofficial acts. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing the majority opinion, also stipulated that communications between a president and his aides cannot be probed for the purposes of determining whether an act was official….