Trump can be sued for Jan. 6 riot harm, Justice Dept says

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Trump can be sued for Jan. 6 riot harm, Justice Dept says

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER 11 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said Thursday in a federal court case testing Trump’s legal vulnerability and the limits of executive power.

Although a president enjoys broad legal latitude to communicate to the public on matters of concern, the department wrote that “no part of a President’s official responsibilities includes the incitement of imminent private violence. By definition, such conduct plainly falls outside the President’s constitutional and statutory duties.”

The brief was filed by lawyers of the Justice Department’s Civil Division and has no bearing on a separate criminal investigation by a department special counsel into whether Trump can be criminally charged over efforts to undo President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election ahead of the Capitol riot. In fact, the lawyers note that they are not taking a position with respect to potential criminal liability for Trump or anyone else.

The Justice Department lawyers also wrote that they take no view on a lower court judge’s conclusion that those who sued Trump have “plausibly” alleged that his speech caused the riot. Nevertheless, the department wrote that that an appeals court should reject Trump’s claim of absolutely immunity.

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-jan-6-capitol-police-congress-immunity-d18d0c6369837c725578cf6e13c18883

[Kamaji]

[Cyber Liberty]

Can the FBI instigators get sued too?

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Justice Department Argues That Trump Can Be Sued for January 6 Capitol Riot
By Mike Miller | 9:30 PM on March 02, 2023

The Department of Justice on Thursday argued that former President Donald Trump can be legally sued for urging supporters at a “Stop the Steal” rally outside the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, to march on the U.S. Capitol Building as Congress was certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.

As reported by the Washington Post, attorneys for the DOJ’s Civil Division wrote:

Speaking to the public on matters of public concern is a traditional function of the Presidency, and the outer perimeter of the President’s Office includes a vast realm of such speech. But that traditional function is one of public communication. It does not include incitement of imminent private violence.

Two Capitol Police officers and 11 House Democrats joined in a lawsuit to hold Trump liable for physiological and physical effects they allegedly suffered from the riot. (Ashli Babbitt was unavailable for comment.)

An appeals court remained undecided in December on whether Trump was acting within his official duties when he held the rally that preceded the riot. The court asked the DOJ to give an opinion on the case, while Trump has argued he has absolute immunity that protects him from being sued.

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https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/03/02/justice-department-argues-that-trump-can-be-sued-for-january-6-capitol-riot-n710877

[christian]

The democrats phony kangaroo courts are getting a tougher and tougher task to further the fraud and outrageous convictions based on lies and phony convictions of innocent people.