CNN Analyst: SCOTUS May Reject Immunity Appeal

“There’s really three major findings that the D.C. Court of Appeals makes here. First of all, they reject this notion of blanket immunity. They say it is not, and cannot be, that a president simply can never be charged for anything that happens during his time in office.

“Second, the Court of Appeals in D.C. says, if we’re asking the question of whether Donald Trump’s conduct was inside his job as president or outside his job as president, they say he was out of bounds here. He’s not covered because he was out of bounds. So even if there is some immunity for stuff that’s inside the presidency, he’s way out of it.

“And then finally they reject this — I think, ludicrous, I think we discussed it at the time — argument that, well, a president can only be indicted if he has first been impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate. Remember, that led to the ridiculous hypotheticals about could a president order assassination? And so this Court of Appeals rejects that.

“And I do think this unanimity makes it more likely that the Supreme Court may say, ‘No, we don’t need to interfere.'” – CNN legal analyst Elie Honing.