Presidential Immunity?

The president’s private attorneys made the case in a legal filing in New York this week intended to halt the litigation against Trump by by Summer Zervos, who sued Trump days before his 20 January inauguration. Zervos was one of more than a dozen women who came forward before the November election to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct following the release of a decade-old Access Hollywood recording in which Trump bragged about groping and kissing women without their consent.

  Guardian

Very interesting. Not a contesting of the claims, but a claim that you can't sue him because he's the president. And as he so inadvertently but clearly told the world, he can do whatever he wants to women.

Trump’s lawyers cited a 1997 supreme court ruling to say the lawsuit should be barred as it held the potential to distract the president from performing his public duties. The ruling in question, Clinton v Jones.

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The supreme court ultimately ruled in that case that presidents are not immune from civil litigation while in office.

So why are they citing that case? Sounds like the opposite of what they want. Do they know what they're doing?

There were as many as 75 private lawsuits against Trump when he assumed the office of the presidency, according to an investigation in USA Today. A decision in Trump’s favor would thus have far-reaching consequences.

Jesus Christ. Seventy-five?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.