Chutkan declined to dismiss the case, and Trump's lawyers appealed her ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Trump's team again appealed, and in February 2024 the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune, immune, immune.

Source: New York Times July 02, 2024 15:32 UTC