The U.S. Supreme Court found on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for actions that were within his constitutional powers as president in a landmark ruling recognizing for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution.
The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, threw out a lower court's decision that had rejected Trump's claim of immunity from federal criminal charges involving his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.
The six conservative justices were in the majority, while its three liberal members dissented.