Trump presses presidential immunity claim in 'Apprentice' contestant's sexual harrassment lawsuit..

[HipChick]

Advancing a sweeping claim of presidential immunity, President Donald Trump's lawyers have formally asked to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former "Apprentice" contestant who says he groped her a decade ago.

Trump's assertion that a sitting president cannot be sued in a state court was contained in a court filing submitted to a Manhattan judge by Marc Kasowitz, the same private attorney heading up the president's defense in ongoing investigations into alleged ties between Russia and the Trump campaign during last year's presidential race.

Kasowitz's motion adopts some of Trump's forceful rhetorical response to the Russia probe, dismissing the lawsuit from former "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos as "a private witch-hunt" aimed at doing political damage to the president and providing fodder for potential impeachment proceedings.Trump's legal team signaled in March that it planned to raise the claim about state courts lacking jurisdiction over the president. Trump's attorneys wanted to press that argument first, then turn to the substance of the suit in subsequent proceedings, if necessary. However, the judge told Trump's side to deal with both sets of issues at once, leading to Friday's filing.

In a filing in April, Zervos' lawyers dismissed Trump's immunity claim. "Precisely because Defendant's underlying tortious behavior has nothing to do with his current duties or office, and because it occurred before he took that office, he does not have immunity from suit," Zervos' attorneys wrote. "No person is above the law in this country and that includes the President of the United States."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/07/08/trump-apprentice-lawsuit-immunity-240326

[Voltaire2]

1. that ain't going anywhere. He doesn't get immunity for what he did before he got to be president.

Even better, there is legal precedent:

Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case establishing that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation against him or her, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_v._Jones

Good luck with those legal aces Twitler.

[Achilleaze]

2. the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is dodging responsibility again

freaking republicans just do not do honor or responsibility. Shameful.