Immunity deals may play a key role in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
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Trump faces fresh charges over his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election result – but how it will affect his 2024 run for the White House remains to be seen.
One of the bedrock principles of the American legal system is that no one is above the law. When it comes to indicting a former US president, political factors must also be weighed.
There are 38 felony charges against former President Donald Trump, and while it’s unlikely, he could potentially be sentenced to serve 400 years if found guilty on all of them.
Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.
The arrest of a former American president is unprecedented, but the nation’s founders anticipated the day would come.
The Manhattan District Attorney will need to prove several different points in its prosecution of Trump. But securing an unbiased jury will also challenge the execution of this unprecedented case.
With a federal indictment of former President Donald Trump, currently a presidential candidate, a legal scholar explores what the law says about the consequences of such an unprecedented act.
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University
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Professor of American Studies, Brandeis University
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Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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Professor of Criminal Law, Immigration, and Race and Law, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Law, Harvard University
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Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
