Posted on 02/18/2022 8:42:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Former President Donald Trump lost a bid Friday to toss lawsuits holding him responsible for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
Federal Judge Amit Mehta rejected Trump’s attempt to dismiss the civil cases with a claim that he has absolute immunity because he was in office at the time.
“To deny a President immunity from civil damages is no small step,” Mehta wrote in a 112-page ruling. “The court well understands the gravity of its decision. But the alleged facts of this case are without precedent, and the court believes that its decision is consistent with the purposes behind such immunity.”
Mehta, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, DC, and appointed by former President Barack Obama, ruled that Trump could be sued for helping to incite the Capitol riot because his “Stop the Steal” speech ahead of the attack in the city was not an official presidential act.
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FINE.
SUE THE PANTS OFF PELOSI AND MAXINE WATERS AND CHUCKIE SCHUMER.
Can Biden and every Dem be held liable for the crime wave?
Another foreign judge, with a foreign mentality.
Unlike most denials of a motion to dismiss, this is immediately appealable (because it involves a claim of absolute immunity). And will almost certainly be reversed.
I heard that Trump was caught with Federal Reserve Notes in a safe.
An Obama Judge. How shocking.
exactly
Trump may have to get a foreign based lawyer to represent him, the way things are going. Almost every single one of his business contacts is being economicly bullied and threatened with imprisonment.
If there are any conservative American judges at all, they are being kept far, far away from any Trump related cases. It’s awful to an historic proportion.
Even still, I hope Mr. Trump hangs in there.
I would like him back in the White House for unfinished business.
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Deep State.
Go look at how many lawsuits against Obama (8 yrs vs 4) were allowed to proceed.
They were immediately shut down.
FOIA, Visitor Logs, Holder’s Ops, Lynch’s cover ups, payoffs to Unions, exemptions to Obama Care, Spygate, a criminal buying him the lot next to his in Chi-town. Michelle Obama’s no show jobs, non enforcement of Federal Law, and on and on.
Nominated by Barack Hussein Obama in 2014 and Born in India.
When are we going to stop placing all these foreigners in positions of power - so many largely linked to Democrats.
Nothing like that will happen because the same Republican backstabbers are in the Senate.
We truly are at war.
Appointed by a foreign president, might I add.
True... good point.
The communist’s attack on Trump has reached the carpet-bombing stage...
Once they got obama (a non-citizen foreigner) into office and he loaded the judicial system, education systems, and federal bureaucracy with foreigners, they knew that total victory was a mere decade or two away...
While the 2022 election may have surprising results, 2024 and beyond will be dominated by foreign politicians and 45-to-55 million non-citizen voters...
The dirt is about to be thrown into the grave on the coffin of freedom & liberty...
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