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Politics
Tatyana Tandanpolie

Trump gave SCOTUS an "out" to delay case

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered the Supreme Court an idea for an alternative means of addressing the presidential immunity question holding up his Washington, D.C., criminal trial that would work to his benefit. 

In a new 67-page brief, the presumptive GOP nominee floated the idea that the justices, should they decide against granting him absolute presidential immunity and nullifying the criminal election subversion charges he faces, could kick the case back to lower courts to determine whether any partial immunity could come into play. 

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