Trump cites immunity ruling in bid to avoid Michael Cohen's civil retaliation claim

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Trump cites immunity ruling in bid to avoid Michael Cohen's civil retaliation claim
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH) join Nicolle Wallace to unravel the origins and impacts of the racist lie Trump parroted at Tuesday night’s debate and the impacts of that lie on the Ohio community implicated, the Haitian American community, and the voters.

The Supreme Court ruling granting Donald Trump broad criminal immunity stemmed from the federal election interference case, but it could wind up helping the Republican presidential nominee in all of his criminal cases. And Trump lawyer Alina Habba seems to think it may help her client in the civil realm, too, as she cited it in his bid to avoid liability in a pending Supreme Court appeal brought by Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen.

United States several times, including a quote from the decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts that said immunity is required “to safeguard the independence and effective functioning of the Executive Branch, and to enable the President to carry out his constitutional duties without undue caution.” Of course, both Cohen’s civil appeal and the Jan. 6 criminal case that led to the immunity ruling show that more caution was warranted during Trump’s time in office.

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