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He US Department of Justice considered on Thursday that the former president of the country Donald Trump (2017-2021) may be prosecuted for incitement to Storming of the Capitol
He US Department of Justice considered on Thursday that the former president of the country Donald Trump (2017-2021) may be prosecuted for incitement to Storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Trump “does not have absolute immunitybefore civil lawsuits filed by police officers and members of Congress seeking to hold him responsible for the physical and psychological damage caused by those events.
Justice Department lawyers understand that it is not the president’s official duty to incite violence like the one that took place on Jan. 6 in a speech Trump gave to a crowd in front of White Housewhen in Congress Democrat Joe Biden has officially won the presidential election.
A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals is to decide whether three multiple lawsuits filed by police and congressmen against the former president, whom they accuse of instigating the events of January 6, 2021, can be heard.
The panel in question heard oral arguments in the case in December, but also requested the opinion of the Justice Department, included in the document filed today, that it believes that President Trump’s condition at the time of the attack did not make him immune from these actions. claims.
Former president’s lawyers appealed to Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismiss the lawsuits on the grounds that Trump’s White House speech that day was part of his job.
They argued that the president was “undoubtedly protected” from any civil liability when delivering a speech on “a matter of public interest.”
But Justice Department lawyers debunked that theory in a paper on Thursday.
Thus, they acknowledged that it is indeed part of the President’s “traditional function” to talk about an issue that concerns society, but, they emphasized, that said function “does not include incitement to imminent violence” such as that which took place after his a speech attacking Congress by hundreds of supporters of the then president.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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