Posted on 03/14/2019 11:56:29 AM PDT by bgill
A former contestant on "The Apprentice" who accused President Donald Trump of unwanted kissing and groping can move forward with her defamation lawsuit against him, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, raising the prospect that a sitting president could be called for sworn questioning. A panel of judges on the Supreme Court Appellate Division said in their ruling, in a case brought by Summer Zervos, that the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution doesn't require trials in state court to be delayed until the president is out of office. Citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling two decades ago in a case involving alleged sexual misconduct by President Bill Clinton, a majority of judges on the panel said presidents can be sued in state courts over things they did that aren't related to their official duties. "The current sitting President attempts to shield himself from consequences for his alleged unofficial misconduct by relying upon the constitutional protection of the Presidency," the judges said in an opinion written by Justice Dianne T. Renwick. "We reject defendant President Trump's argument that the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution prevents a New York State court — and every other state court in the country — from exercising its authority under its state constitution. Instead, we find that the Supremacy Clause was never intended to deprive a state court of its authority to decide cases and controversies under the state's constitution."
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These are the scum that voted with the Dems
Collins Murkowski Paul Lee Romney Alexander Toomey Moran Wicker Portman Blunt Rubio
Can Trump still veto this?
OOPS damn wrong thread
Amazing how the constitution matters to this b.tch judge when it comes to HURTING TRUMP.
Wonder what she thinks of the 2nd amendment.
Bet she doesn’t give a #### about the constitution then.
president trump did not do this.
citizen trump maybe.
Maybe parents of the girls Biden has kissed and groped should follow suit.
Chris Coons is just jealous that Biden didn’t try to stick in his tongue in HIS ear
That has nothing to do with defamation.
Eleven or twelve years and the statute of limitations has not run out on kissing and groping accusations?
This is a very poorly written article with closely related items being sentences, or paragraphs apart. Maybe the defamation suit is because the president said in 2016 that this and other accusers were lying about something that did not happen twelve years ago.
And how does anyone think supposed kissing and groping incidents from 2006 can be proved or disproved a dozen years later? She’d have to prove the president did something twelve years ago before she can prove she was defamed in 2016. No court should waste time on this.
The Dems are going for a Paula Jones tactic. Pull the President into a Perjury Trap.
“Maybe parents of the girls Biden has kissed and groped should follow suit.”
Best idea of the day!
the broke and begging for money ham sandwich girl resurfaces
some people have no dignity
Fakes bits
Weird break nose
Nope....didn’t happen...
only if it was dropped on all the silicone
Summer turns to Fall. Ends up in Winter. Don’t look like Spring’s coming anytime soon.
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