Memphis D.C. reps react to SCOTUS ruling on Trump’s immunity case
People protest, Monday, July 1, 2024, outside the Supreme Court in Washington, as decisions are announced. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
In a historic 6-3 ruling, the justices said Monday for the first time that former presidents can be shielded from prosecution for at least some of what they do in the Oval Office. But rather than do it themselves, the justices ordered lower courts to figure out precisely how to apply the decision to Trump’s case.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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