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Immunity ruling likely to gut parts of criminal prosecution against Trump

Chief Justice John Roberts made clear to the lower court that some of Trump’s actions actions were protected

The US supreme court’s decision on Monday to confer broad immunity to former presidents is likely to eviscerate numerous parts of the criminal prosecution against Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The court remanded the case back to the presiding US district judge Tanya Chutkan to apply a three-part test to decide which actions were protected – but Chief Justice John Roberts pre-emptively made clear that some were definitively out.

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