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 nations 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 Constitutions 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...
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"Drag a hundred-dollar bill through Central Park, you never know what you'll find. "I sort of miss seeing Carville's wife Mary sparring with the libs. I thought she was much older but turns out she won't turn 65 until this August. I think she became a late-in-life mom and that changed her priorities.
Toon was shielded and protected....but not our Trump...oh no...we have to make new inventive rulings to get to him..
By Any Means Necessary is the neo-confederate racists’ battle cry.
Boy, they are pulling out the stops with the sex stuff.
The left thinks most Republicans are ultra Christian.
What we are is able to separate his pre presidential private life and when he is on the clock. What I havent heard is how he has a button under his desk to lock the door so he can chase women around the office. And then bend them over the desk.
The left thinks I care about his whoremongering. I dont.
I will personally enable the mass manufacturing of suits against any and all Democrat officeholders if this stands. I’ll put up a website, a fill-in-the-blank claim form, and generate PDFs for people to file. Everything will be designed to maximize the financial devastation to the targets.
Republicans can in fact play this game. Choosing not to do so out of humility and/or restraint is not the same as being incapable.
There is no logic, and it's not going to wash. If this were allowed, then presidents would spend all their time defending themselves from frivolous lawsuits filed in state courts rather than governing. Soon grown-ups will become involved, rather than Trump-hating, frothing at the mouth lesbian judges.
I’d love to see this #### judge’s prior rulings.
And BTW, no one will be above the law if a revolution broke out. Including her.
Apparently, Hillary Clinton, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, etc., etc., etc. are above the law, yo......../s
So while Trump was supposedly banging a porn star, he decided to grope this butt-er-face?
Well, then, the next Dem prez better be more like Caesar’s Wife than like Bill Clinton Rapist if they want to start setting precedents.
SCOTUS - unanimously, said different in Clinton v. Jones.
So what is the distinction between that and Pres. Trump ?
She also has bitch face lol
Typically such cases get deferred until after they leave office.
Sounds like a female NY judge with a case of red@$$ against Trump. Likewise, if the person administering the polygraph to Stormy Whutzerface has ill will toward Trump; why, OF COURSE she “passed” the test. The FBI lies. The DOJ lies. Show us PROOF that she passed. And then I still will probably doubt it’s legit.
I do not care either, and; frankly, no man I know, especially all married types, would dare have sex with any porn type for fear of DISEASE. I suspect her encounter with Trump was one she staged complete with camera. To cut to the chase, if she had any real legal case-why did she settle for 120K or so with a billionaire? After the attorney got his 33 1/3% to 50%, with the higher fee being for those with little up front cash/ability to pay- she got well under 80K max. Now you are a married billionaire and some porn type manages to get one on one with you and has a photo. 123K is fraction of a percent to Trump.
Should ask SCOTUS for immediate, expedited review as national security is at stake.
I think the Paula Jones vs Clinton changed that.
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