Posted on 03/20/2018 12:28:50 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
President Trump must face a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on his reality TV show “The Apprentice” after a Manhattan judge ruled in a first-of-its kind decision that he could not claim immunity through his job as the nation’s commander-in-chief.
“No one is above the law,” Justice Jennifer Schecter wrote in the 19-page decision released Tuesday.
Trump had argued that presidents are shielded from civil litigation in state courts under the US Constitution’s supremacy clause, but that assertion had never been fully tested by the courts — until now.
“It is settled that the President of the United States has no immunity and is ‘subject to the laws’ for purely private acts,” Justice Schecter added.
The decision means that Summer Zervos, who in 2016 accused then-candidate Trump of groping and pressing his privates against her in 2007, can pursue her defamation case against the president for saying that her allegations were “fiction” and claiming she made them up for “personal gain...”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Presidents are shielded while in office.
What prof does she have. Is it just she said, he said?
Again I din’t give a squat what he did 10 years ago in his personal life! I’m only interested in his job performance as President and he’s doing one hell of a great JOB as far as I’m concerned!
Look for lefties claiming that Klinton and Obama were exempt when they were in office to quickly have a change of heart and forget all of their former defenses.
“No one is above the law,” Justice Jennifer Schecter wrote in the 19-page decision released Tuesday.
Okay Judge, just as soon as Obola, Clintons, McCabes, Mueller, and everyone else in Government right now has their turn first...that’s the way the game is played...of course, we don’t know what is in your background yet do we!!!???
Better put some ice on it.
Everybody lies about sex.
If this is let to happen, every President from now on will spend full time defending meritless civil suits intended to distract him from executing policy.
It’s time to go back to the assumption that if a woman makes an accusation on no evidence, she is lying.
Someone should give her a comb.
This case will be thrown out... Just because you can find one judge who disagrees with established law, doesn’t mean that they are right... They are wrong and this will thrown out.
Track9 wrote:
Someone should give her a comb.
and de-lousing! Donald would NEVER touch a skank like that! She looks like her crabs have herpes...
Jim Noble wrote:
Better put some ice on it.
Everybody lies about sex.
Well done, Mr. Noble...
Liberals are planning on using New York state courts to crush Trump, the logic being that he isn't shielded from state actions.
“Someone should give her a comb.”
It won’t help. She has permanent Bitch Face.
2007 was eleven years ago. What was she waiting for?
No, just Republicans.
I’m guessing Jenny is from the Democrat block.
No one is above the law unless you’re a prominent Democrat.
Unless your name is Obama, Lerner, McCabe, Comey, Clinton, Holder, Reno, Steele, Strzok, Powers, Lynch, Podesta, Abedin, Page, Blumenthal, Brennan, etc. etc.
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