Explain to me how Trump defaming a woman he raped falls under his "presidential immunity" benediction? [View all]
The new filing asks the appeals court to halt its latest ruling against Trump from taking effect while he challenges it at the Supreme Court. Without such procedural relief, he argues, he “may immediately be required to bear the burdens of proceedings to execute on the judgment of $83.3 million.” The filing said that Carroll didn’t oppose the motion, on the condition that Trump “increase the bond by $7,462,492.74 to account for the post-judgment interest that would accrue during any proceedings before the Supreme Court through October 2027.”
Assuming the appeals court grants it, that further highlights the stakes of the forthcoming petition, which Trump argued in the filing will present important issues, including on presidential immunity.
The Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling in Trump v. United States was about criminal immunity, and these appeals deal with civil matters. Still, Trump argues the ruling helps him in the $83.3 million case, which stems from statements he made while he was president during his first term.
In Tuesday’s appellate filing, Trump said his petition will raise at least these two issues: “(1) whether the President’s absolute immunity from civil claims based on official acts can be waived at all (President Trump maintains that such immunity cannot be waived), or at least without an explicit and unequivocal renunciation of the immunity; and (2) whether the United States timely filed, and did not waive, a renewed Westfall Act certification.”
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