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...”
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Oh yeah, I can smell the stench of these BS accusation all the way down in here in Georgia. And you just know that DeBlasio and Cyrus Vance in NYC have got the judges on their payroll.
Thank God we've got a man with the courage to stand up to these constant witch-hunts. Very few men could do this and also have the competence to run the country so well.
Go Trump! We're behind you 100%!
That’s great! So it proves she held a grudge. Ha!
Thanks for posting. Very revealing.
Trump sealed the case by having his associates deliver the damning question to this lightweight.
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