Donald Trump
"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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A neo-Nazi drove his car into a group of anti-racist demonstrators during the 2017 hate rally, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
"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.
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Cassidy Hutchinson also addressed the new indictment of her onetime boss, former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
The conservative icon named and shamed the “cabal of grotesques” in the Republican Party.
Former GOP leader Michael Steele agreed and explained why the hush money trial could be the most important one facing the former president.