By Tierney Sneed, CNN
Published 6:00 PM EDT, Wed April 24, 2024
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Whether the legal system can hold Donald Trump accountable for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election has been an evolving conversation among courts across the country. On Thursday, the Supreme Court will enter the chat.
The high court is by no means bound by how other federal courts have interpreted the legitimacy of Trump’s post-election conduct.
But if the justices decide that Trump’s attempts to reverse his loss were in the realm of official presidential conduct, they’ll be rebuffing the assessments of a broad swath of lower court judges – appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents alike – who have concluded otherwise.
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