A federal appeals panel wants to know why lawyers for former President Donald Trump didn't try years ago to deflect a defamation lawsuit from a woman who accused him of sexual assault with a presidential immunity claim
A federal appeals panel wants to know why lawyers for former President Donald Trump didn’t try years ago to use a claim of absolute presidential immunity to shield him from a defamation lawsuit by a woman who accused him of sexual assault. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan listened Monday as a lawyer for Trump argued that a lower-court judge was wrong to reject the defense after it was raised three years after columnist E. Jean Carroll first sued Trump.
“While there is a public interest in immunizing presidents for actions properly taken within the scope of their duties, there is a public interest also in ensuring that even presidents will be held accountable for actions that — as this Court already has determined in this case — do not come within that scope,” Kaplan wrote.
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