Republican attorneys general suggest a test for Supreme Court to measure presidential immunity

Three Republican attorneys general filed an amicus brief in former President Donald Trump’s immunity appeal, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to establish a test for presidential immunity.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed the brief in Donald J. Trump v. United States of America, which was also signed by Wyoming Attorney General Bridget Hill and Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor. In the brief, they asked the high court to define the boundaries of presidential immunity and take a broad approach to it when the justices hear Trump’s oral arguments on April 25.

“A line of normal behavior has been crossed — the special counsel actually boasts in his own brief that a president has never before been criminally prosecuted,” Yost said in a press release. “In
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