{"id":2232199,"date":"2024-04-28T18:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T22:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jonathan-turley-supreme-court-needs-to-strike-a-balance-on-presidential-immunity\/"},"modified":"2024-04-28T18:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T22:16:49","slug":"jonathan-turley-supreme-court-needs-to-strike-a-balance-on-presidential-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jonathan-turley-supreme-court-needs-to-strike-a-balance-on-presidential-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Turley emphasizes the importance of balancing presidential immunity in the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjonathan-turley-supreme-court-needs-to-strike-a-balance-on-presidential-immunity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2232199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley highlighted the need \u2062for\u2062 the \u200bSupreme Court to find a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-indictment-criminalizes-legal-counsel-former-prosecutor\/\" title=\"Trump's indictment targets legal counsel, says ex-prosecutor.\">balanced\u2063 approach<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-hands-trump-a-win-says-stolen-election-claims-protected-by-presidential-immunity\/\" title=\"Judge rules in favor of Trump, says stolen election claims protected by presidential immunity.\">presidential\u200d immunity<\/a>. \u2064He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abc-political-director-rick-klein-calls-for-cleansing-pro-trump-movement\/\" title=\"ABC Political Director Rick Klein calls for \u2018cleansing\u2019 pro-Trump movement\">expressed concern<\/a> over potential extreme arguments that\u200c could leave a president \u2062unprotected, emphasizing\u200c the importance of a\u2063 nuanced perspective. Turley noted\u2062 a significant concession\u2062 made by the government and suggested \u2063a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-abortion-crazies-now-claiming-roe-overturning-makes-it-more-difficult-to-treat-serious-disease\/\" title=\"Pro-Abortion Crazies Now Claiming Roe Overturning Makes It More Difficult to Treat Serious Disease\">potential delay<\/a>\u200c in Trump&#8217;s trial before the election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley argued over the weekend that the Supreme Court needed to strike a balance when ruling over whether presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Turley made the remarks during an interview with Shannon Bream on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a slippery slope on both sides, but I was surprised with the three justices on the left, is that they didn\u2019t seem at all concerned about how extreme that argument would be \u2014 leaving a president with no protection,\u201d he said. \u201cSo the question that most of the justices were struggling with, and I thought they were doing in good faith, is how do we find a more balanced, nuanced approach here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government made a major concession to Justice Gorsuch when he said there are things you can\u2019t criminalize that a president does and the government said yes,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd he said doesn\u2019t it sound a lot like immunity? Isn\u2019t it our job to try to define where that is? It was a devastating moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cSo there is a real chance that this could be sent back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-yanks-trump-backed-hispanic-nominee-to-federal-appeals-court\/\" title=\"Biden Yanks Trump-Backed Hispanic Nominee to Federal Appeals Court\">trial court<\/a>, to say we need more information of which of these acts were part of an official function, and which were not. That will take time and likely derail any effort to try Trump before the election in Washington D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University law professor, Jonathan Turley, stressed the Supreme Court&#8217;s need to find a balance regarding presidential immunity. 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