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The Clinton Accuser Who Could Bring Down Trump

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Chances are, when President Trump — who once labeled Jones “a loser” in a 1998 NBC News interview — first resurrected her case to help bolster his candidacy, he never contemplated the role it could play in unraveling his presidency. Over two decades ago, Clinton attempted to delay a sexual harassment suit filed against him by Jones until after he left office. In it, she alleged that in 1991, the then Arkansas governor had exposed himself to her in a Little Rock hotel room while she was a 24-year-old state employee. The resulting case, Jones v. Clinton, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which held in a unanimous decision in 1997 that executive privilege did not protect a sitting president from lawsuits filed against him for private conduct.

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Donnie's lawyers are trying to argue he's immune from a current defamation suit because it would distract from his presidential duties. I'm guessing by 'presidential duties' they mean whine tweeting and golfing.

An attorney for President Donald Trump believes he’s found the silver bullet to stop a woman from suing the president for allegedly defaming her after she came forward with claims of his past sexual misconduct.

Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz is arguing that Trump is immune from such litigation thanks to the Supremacy Clause in the United States Constitution.

The clause establishes the Constitution — as well as laws passed and treaties signed by the federal government — as the “supreme law of the land.”


Kasowitz argues that this clause means that “the ‘singular importance of the President’s duties’ warrants a stay where civil actions, such as this one, ‘frequently could distract a President from his public duties, to the detriment of not only the President and his office but also the Nation that the President was designed to serve.'”


However, the Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that the Constitution did not prohibit the president from facing civil suits from private citizens, although the court’s decision did not specifically address this particular interpretation of the Supremacy Clause in its ruling.


Because of this, Kasowitz argues that courts should toss out a defamation lawsuit that was filed by former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos, who accused the president of falsely disparaging her after she made sexual assault allegations against him.
 
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