- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
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- world@lemmy.world
Alternate news organization: https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-sentencing-bragg-4d5f8ce399656abff72d7c114a04060d
Alternate news organization: https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-sentencing-bragg-4d5f8ce399656abff72d7c114a04060d
Only if the prosecutors can successfully prove they weren’t official acts, which will be non-trivial since so many things (like talking to advisors) are themselves official acts. It’s really unclear how functionally pierceable that outer layer of presumed immunity is. The burden to bypass it is placed with the prosecutors, and any decision can be appealed back to the Supreme Court that wrote a whole nonsense provision to protect him even in this state trial.