The Washington Post reports:
Lawyers for the Justice Department urged a federal judge on Friday to dismiss lawsuits against former president Donald Trump, former attorney general William P. Barr and other officials for last June’s violent clearing of demonstrators from Lafayette Square by U.S. military and police.
Trump and other U.S. officials are immune from civil lawsuits over police actions taken to protect a president and to secure his movements, government lawyers said of the actions taken ahead of a photo op of Trump holding a Bible in front of the historic St. John’s Church.
A year to the week after Floyd’s death, Justice Department lawyers argued that the lawsuits should also be tossed because last November’s presidential election made future violations unlikely.
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Justice Dept. asks judge to toss lawsuit against Trump, Barr for violent clearing of Lafayette Square https://t.co/AJPSDnSyS9
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 28, 2021
DOJ argues protesters’ Lafayette Square lawsuit should be dropped as Trump’s out of office https://t.co/ZmJ43MTmCG
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) May 29, 2021