Yahoo News Ex-Trump White House Attorney On Immunity Ruling: ‘This Case Is Not Dead’
Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb said Monday the U.S. Supreme Court went “a little further than I anticipated” in granting Donald Trump complete immunity for “official” acts he committed when president.
The justices were “always going to draw a constitutional line here, a separation of powers line, and they drew it, and it’s a tight line,” the lawyer said on CNN.
“But it’s not a line that eliminates this case,” Cobb added of the former president’s criminal case regarding Jan. 6, 2021.
Special counsel Jack Smith “can proceed, should he decide to and I’m sure he will, in some form, whether he streamlines the case, whether he does a superseding indictment, those are all strategic decisions that we’ll see in the upcoming weeks,” he said.
“But this case is not dead,” Cobb added of the case against the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
Cobb also criticized Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent, in which she claimed that “in every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.”
It was “a little hysterical and it really offered no analysis, a lot of screaming, no analysis, and I think that was unfortunate,” said Cobb.
Sotomayor “didn’t address at all the separation of powers issue, which is what the case was decided on,” he added.
Watch Cobb’s full analysis here:
