Fox’s Jonathan Turley Predicts Trump Will Have ‘Trouble’ Convincing Even Conservative SCOTUS Justices to Accept Immunity Claim

Fox News contributor and legal commentator Jonathan Turley predicted that former President Donald Trump would have trouble convincing even the conservative bloc of the Supreme Court to accept his immunity claim during an appearance on The Faulkner Focus Tuesday.

After host Harris Faulkner noted both that Trump would soon be appealing a decision denying him immunity from criminal prosecution and that Special Counsel Jack Smith was hoping to quickly settle the matter once and for all, Turley said Trump might have a case on some procedural complaints, but not on the merits of the case.

“I think Trump has a good argument procedurally,” submitted Turley, who said that the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was essentially threatening to punish him for appealing its decision.

“If he tries to do that, they’ll send the mandate back to the trial court. And what that means is that the trial court could start pretrial proceedings again before anyone reviews this,” said Turley. “I think it is unfair.”

But then Turley shifted gears.

“Where he’s [Trump] going to have trouble, I think, is on the immunity claim. It’s very sweeping, and I expect that there are going to be justices, including some on the right, who are skeptical of those claims,” he argued.

“And what does that mean ultimately for Trump?” inquired Faulkner.

“Well, there’s two aspects in play here,” he answered. “One is the merits, where I think that it favors Jack Smith with the Supreme Court. The other is schedule. Smith is really, you know, sort of unyielding and trying to get this thing tried to get Trump convicted before the election. Once you’re past the summer, you’re going to be running out of runway. The Department of Justice does not like trials right before an election.”

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