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Exclusive: Trump setback in accuser's defamation case is first of its kind
https://nypost.com/ ^ | 03/0/2018 | Julia Marsh

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 ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: gloriallred; jenniferschecter; summerzervos; trumpscandals
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1 posted on 03/20/2018 12:28:50 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
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To: heterosupremacist

Presidents are shielded while in office.


2 posted on 03/20/2018 12:32:03 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: heterosupremacist

What prof does she have. Is it just she said, he said?


3 posted on 03/20/2018 12:32:17 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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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!


4 posted on 03/20/2018 12:33:41 PM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: mojito
Yes they are, otherwise it would be mayhem.

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.

5 posted on 03/20/2018 12:33:52 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: heterosupremacist; JoSixChip; hillarynot; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; ..

“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!!!???


6 posted on 03/20/2018 12:34:36 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: heterosupremacist

Better put some ice on it.

Everybody lies about sex.


7 posted on 03/20/2018 12:34:51 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: heterosupremacist

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.


8 posted on 03/20/2018 12:37:13 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: heterosupremacist

Someone should give her a comb.


9 posted on 03/20/2018 12:38:24 PM PDT by Track9 (If you want peace, kill your enemies.)
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To: heterosupremacist

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.


10 posted on 03/20/2018 12:38:32 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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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...


11 posted on 03/20/2018 12:41:32 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson))
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Jim Noble wrote:

Better put some ice on it.

Everybody lies about sex.
Well done, Mr. Noble...


12 posted on 03/20/2018 12:42:27 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson))
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No one is above the law,” Justice Jennifer Schecter wrote in the 19-page decision released Tuesday. Except Democrats
13 posted on 03/20/2018 12:42:41 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: mojito
Presidents are shielded while in office.

Liberals are planning on using New York state courts to crush Trump, the logic being that he isn't shielded from state actions.

14 posted on 03/20/2018 12:43:17 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Track9

“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?


15 posted on 03/20/2018 12:44:21 PM PDT by beelzepug (The permanent political class that runs this country is...the great(est) danger we face)
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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.

No, just Republicans.

16 posted on 03/20/2018 12:44:33 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: heterosupremacist

I’m guessing Jenny is from the Democrat block.


17 posted on 03/20/2018 12:45:02 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: heterosupremacist

No one is above the law unless you’re a prominent Democrat.


18 posted on 03/20/2018 12:45:19 PM PDT by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: heterosupremacist
“No one is above the law,” Justice Jennifer Schecter wrote

Unless your name is Obama, Lerner, McCabe, Comey, Clinton, Holder, Reno, Steele, Strzok, Powers, Lynch, Podesta, Abedin, Page, Blumenthal, Brennan, etc. etc.


19 posted on 03/20/2018 12:47:12 PM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: heterosupremacist
Above the law:


20 posted on 03/20/2018 12:48:43 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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