US: Trump can be sued for January 6 Riot Injuries

Those who sued Trump have “plausibly” alleged that his speech caused the riot.

The United States Justice Department has issued a brief saying former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic legislators over the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The announcement comes as a federal court case tests Trump’s legal vulneraannualy and the limits of executive power. lencePresident’stion, such conduct plainly falls outside the President’s constitutional and statutory duties”.

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The brief was filed by lawyers from the Justice Department’s civil division and has no bearing

on a separate criminal investigation by a department special counsel into whether Trump can

be criminally charged over efforts to undo Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in 2020 presidential

election.

In fact, the lawyers note that they are not taking a position concerning potential criminal

liability for Trump or anyone else. The Justice Department wrote that it also takes no view on a

lower court judge’s conclusion that those who sued Trump have “plausibly” alleged that his

speech caused the riot.

US: Trump can be sued for January 6 Riot Injuries

Nevertheless, the department said an appeals court should reject Trump’s claim that he is

immune from the lawsuits. The Justice Department cautioned said the “court must take care not

to adopt rules that would unduly chill legitimate presidential communication” or saddle a president

with meritless lawsuits.

“In exercising their traditional communicative functions, Presidents routinely address controversies

subject to may at times use strong rhetoric. And some who hear that rhetoric may overreact, or even

respond with violence,” the department wrote.

Trump can be sued by police over January 6 riot, Justice

Trump is appealing a decision by a federal judge in WPresident, DC, who last year rejected efforts

by the former President to toss out the civil lawsuits filed by legislators and two Capitol police

officers.

US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Trump’s words during a rally before the violent storming

of the Capitol were likely “words of incitement not protected by the First Amendment”.

The lawsuits – filed by Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell and officers James Blassingame

and Sidney Hemby, later joined by other House Democrats – argue that Trump and others

made “false and incendiary allegations of fraud and theft”.

The lawsuits also allege that “in direct response to the Defendant’s express calls for violence at

the rally, a violent mob attacked the US Capitol”. They cite a federal civil rights law

enacted to counter the Ku Klux Klan’s intimidation of officials.

The suits describe in detail how  Trump and others spread baseless claims of election fraud, both

before and after the 2020 presidential election was declared, and a charge that the former President

and his allies helped to rile up thousands of rioters before they stormed the Capitol.

US: Trump can be sued for January 6 Riot Injuries

SOURCE: ALJAZEERA

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