.realDonaldTrump’s actions around 2020 election not protected by ‘absolute immunity,’ judge rules
The ruling from Judge Emmet Sullivan of the D.C. District Court opens the former president up to a lawsuit from the NAACP and the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, which argue Trump’s actions during the 2020 election cycle unfairly discriminated against some voters. Sullivan’s decision also shuts down arguments from Trump’s lawyers who sought to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing he can’t be held liable in civil lawsuits because of certain immunities he held as president.
“If Former President Trump disrupted the certification of the electoral vote count, as Plaintiffs allege here, such actions would not constitute executive action in defense of the Constitution,” Sullivan wrote. “For these reasons, the Court concludes that Former President Trump is not immune from monetary damages in this suit.”
The NAACP and Michigan Welfare Fund sued Trump in late 2020 for his efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election, specifically for “disenfranchising black voters in Michigan” by pressuring state officials not to certify election results. The lawsuit accuses Trump and his campaign of violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965, later expanding to include alleged disenfranchisement in numerous states.
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