President Trump’s brief to the Supreme Court, arguing that the president “cannot function, and the Presidency itself cannot retain its vital independence, if the President faces criminal prosecution for official acts once he leaves office,” is his most fulsome statement yet on the powers of the office he once held.
The 67-page filing lays out the 45th president’s position on immunity in advance of oral arguments at the high court. It declares that a “denial of criminal immunity would incapacitate every future President with de facto blackmail and extortion while in office, and condemn him to years of post-office trauma at the hands of political opponents.”
