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Reagan-appointed judge uses footnote to ding the Supreme Court's Trump immunity ruling
Reagan-appointed judge uses footnote to ding the Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling
By John Fritze, CNN
2 minute read
Published 2:51 PM EDT, Fri August 9, 2024
US District Judge William G. Young United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
(CNN) — A federal trial court judge in North Carolina used a highly unusual footnote in a ruling Friday to take a swipe at the Supreme Court, accusing the conservative majority of attempting to “redesign” the presidency when it granted sweeping immunity to Donald Trump.
In a lengthy footnote at the end of his opinion, US District Judge William G. Young, appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, appeared to praise the high court’s rulings this year affirming the use of jury trials in some situations.
But then Young offered a caveat, citing the court’s major decision in the Trump immunity case delivered along 6-3 conservative-liberal lines.
Young described the outcome of that case as a “six-member majority, eschewing historical analysis,” that “sought fundamentally to redesign the relationship between the sovereign people and the first citizen of the Republic.”
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By John Fritze, CNN
2 minute read
Published 2:51 PM EDT, Fri August 9, 2024
US District Judge William G. Young United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
(CNN) — A federal trial court judge in North Carolina used a highly unusual footnote in a ruling Friday to take a swipe at the Supreme Court, accusing the conservative majority of attempting to “redesign” the presidency when it granted sweeping immunity to Donald Trump.
In a lengthy footnote at the end of his opinion, US District Judge William G. Young, appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, appeared to praise the high court’s rulings this year affirming the use of jury trials in some situations.
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But then Young offered a caveat, citing the court’s major decision in the Trump immunity case delivered along 6-3 conservative-liberal lines.
Young described the outcome of that case as a “six-member majority, eschewing historical analysis,” that “sought fundamentally to redesign the relationship between the sovereign people and the first citizen of the Republic.”
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