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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Trump would be free to obstruct justice in second term after immunity ruling

Man leaves podium next to American flag
Special counsel Robert Mueller leaves the podium after speaking about the Russia investigation in May 2019. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

When the special counsel Robert Mueller testified to Congress in 2019 about the Russia investigation, he said he believed Donald Trump could be charged with obstructing his investigation after he left office. The US supreme court has effectively ruled this week that would no longer be true.

The testimony before the House judiciary committee was to do with whether Trump had committed obstruction of justice in trying to fire Mueller to end the investigation into his contacts with Russia before the 2016 election.

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