'Though he is tasked with significant responsibilities, the President is still a person, and he is not above the law.'
WASHINGTON – An appeals court in New York on Thursday became the first appeals court nationwide to rule that a sitting president — in this case, President Donald Trump — is not immune from civil lawsuits in state court.to a defamation lawsuit brought by a former contestant on, Summer Zervos. Although the US Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that then-president Bill Clinton could be sued in federal court, the justices left open the question of what was allowed in state court.
"The case has proceeded in the trial court and discovery continues. We look forward to proving to a jury that Ms. Zervos told the truth about Defendant’s unwanted sexual groping and holding him accountable for his malicious lies," Wang said. At a press conference in October 2016, Zervos claimed that years before he was president, Trump on two separate occasions kissed her against her will and groped her, once in his office and another time at a hotel when they met for dinner. Trump denied there was any inappropriate sexual activity, and repeatedly charged that the women accusing him of bad acts were lying. Zervos filed a defamation lawsuit in New York Supreme Court in January 2017.
Like the Clinton case in the 1990s, Zervos' lawsuit involves"purely unofficial acts," Renwick wrote. There were reasonable policy reasons why presidents were immune from lawsuits challenging their offiical decisions, she said, but Congress had never passed a law extending that immunity to personal behavior.
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