Politics
"If he's not covered by the criminal law, he can't be impeached for violating it at all," the Supreme Court justice said during Thursday's arguments.
The justices seemed to focus more on hypothetical future cases rather than the case immediately before them.
The decision means he'll still need to pay damages in the libel case Carroll won against him.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce immediately challenged the agency's new ban, filing a lawsuit in the conservative 5th Circuit.
"I'm trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into the seat of criminal activity in this country," Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said.
Whether Trump faces a criminal trial for his actions leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, is now in the hands of nine justices, three of whom he appointed.
The bill forces TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell its stake in the platform to a U.S.-based entity within 12 months or risk a ban.
Twenty-one Democrats urged the Drug Enforcement Administration to deschedule weed and "resolve more than 50 years of failed, racially discriminatory marijuana policy."
The House speaker responded with a diplomatic diss of the extremist lawmaker.
“I must answer the question if it is worth it to continue, given the mud pit the right and far-right have made out of our politics," said Pedro Sánchez.