.MaddowBlog: Trump has suffered a lot of legal setbacks lately, but his defeat in a ruling related to the Jan. 6 attack is easily among the most dramatic.
A federal judge on Friday denied former President Donald Trump’s request to toss lawsuits accusing him and others of triggering the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, ruling that he is potentially liable for damages over actions he took as president.
“To deny a president immunity from civil damages is no small step,” U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta wrote in his ruling. “The court well understands the gravity of its decision. But the alleged facts of this case are without precedent, and the court believes that its decision is consistent with the purposes behind such immunity.”lately, but this is easily among his most dramatic defeats, in part because of the ruling’s conclusions, and in part because of the likely consequences.
Mehta concluded that Trump’s responsibilities for the riot are difficult to ignore: The then-president, the judge found, called followers to Washington, D.C., and dispatched them to the Capitol, knowing full well that violence was likely to soon follow. Pointing to the Republican’s own rhetoric, Mehta wrote that Trump’s Jan. 6 speech was “akin to telling an excited mob that corn-dealers starve the poor in front of the corn-dealer’s home.
added, Friday afternoon’s decision leaves Trump and members of his team “vulnerable to another flurry of deposition subpoenas and document demands. The ruling also declares Trump potentially liable for conduct while he was the sitting president, a rare and momentous legal decision.” And if Trump is ultimately held liable in these civil suits, there’s a very real possibility that he’d have to pay damages from his own pocket. Watch this space.
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