No. 23-939
 
Title: Donald J. Trump, Petitioner
v.
United States
Docketed: February 28, 2024
Linked with: 23A745
Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
   Case Numbers: (23-3228)
   Decision Date: February 6, 2024
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Proceedings and Orders
Feb 12 2024 Application (23A745) for a stay, submitted to The Chief Justice.
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Feb 12 2024 Petition for a writ of certiorari filed.
Feb 13 2024 Response to application (23A745) requested by The Chief Justice, due February 20, 2024, by 4pm (EST).
Feb 13 2024 Brief amicus curiae of John Danforth, J. Michael Luttig, Carter Phillips, Peter Keisler, Larry Thompson, Stuart Gerson, et al. filed.
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Feb 13 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Law Scholars filed.
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Feb 14 2024 Response to application from respondent United States filed.
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Feb 14 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Protect Democracy Project filed.
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Feb 15 2024 Reply of applicant Donald J. Trump filed.
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Feb 15 2024 Brief amicus curiae of David Boyle filed.
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Feb 16 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Alabama and 21 Other States filed.
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Feb 19 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Christian Family Coalition filed.
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Feb 19 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Jeremy Bates filed.
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Feb 20 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Law Professors Steven Calabresi and Gary Lawson, and Citizens United filed.
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Feb 28 2024 Application (23A745) referred to the Court.
Feb 28 2024 Petition GRANTED.
Feb 28 2024 The application for a stay presented to The Chief Justice is referred by him to the Court. The Special Counsel’s request to treat the stay application as a petition for a writ of certiorari s granted (23-939), and that petition is granted limited to the following question: Whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office. Without expressing a view on the merits, this Court directs the Court of Appeals to continue withholding issuance of the mandate until the sending down of the judgment of this Court. The application for stay is dismissed as moot. The case will be set for oral argument during the week of April 22, 2024. Petitioner’s brief on the merits, and any amicus curiae briefs in support or in support of neither party, are to be filed on or before Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Respondent’s brief on the merits, and any amicus curiae briefs in support, are to be filed on or before Monday, April 8, 2024. The reply brief, if any, is to be filed on or before 5 p.m., Monday, April 15, 2024.
Feb 29 2024 Record requested from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Mar 01 2024 Record received electronically from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and available with the Clerk.
Mar 01 2024 Record received from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The record is electronic and is available on PACER.
Mar 06 2024 SET FOR ARGUMENT on Thursday, April 25, 2024.
Mar 12 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Matthew D. Wilson filed.
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Mar 18 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Guardian Defense Fund, Inc. in support of neither party filed. (Distributed)
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amici curiae of Alabama and 17 Other States filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief of petitioner Donald J. Trump filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Condemned USA filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amici curiae of Coolidge Reagan Foundation, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Senator Steve Daines and National Republican Senatorial Committee filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amici curiae of Ohio, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amicus curiae of The American Center for Law and Justice filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amici curiae of United States Justice Foundation, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amici curiae of Former United States Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, et al. in support of neither party filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amici curiae of Three Former Senior Military Officers and Executive Branch Officials filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amici curiae of Kansas Republican Party and 17 Other State and Territorial Republican Parties filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amici curiae of Former Attorneys General Edwin Meese III and Michael B. Mukasey; Law Professors Steven Calabresi and Gary Lawson; and Citizens United filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Christian Family Coalition (CFC) Florida, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit Corporation filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amici curiae of America's Future, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amici curiae of Gavin M. Wax, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Former White House Chief of Staff Mark R. Meadows in support of neither party filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amici curiae of U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Citizens Equal Rights Foundation in support of neither party filed. (Distributed)
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Mar 19 2024 Brief amicus curiae of David Boyle in support of neither party filed. (Distributed)
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Mar 22 2024 CIRCULATED
Mar 29 2024 Any motion pertaining to the oral argument in this case shall be filed on or before Monday, April 8, 2024.
Apr 04 2024 Brief amici curiae of John Danforth, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 05 2024 Brief amicus curiae of G. Antaeus B. Edelsohn filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief of respondent United States filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Leadership Now Project filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Jeremy Bates filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amici curiae of Scholars of Constitutional Law filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amici curiae of Former Government Officials and Constitutional Lawyers filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amici curiae of Retired Four-Star Admirals and Generals, and Former Secretaries of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amici curiae of Scholars of the Founding Era filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Amicus brief of Common Cause not accepted for filing. (April 10, 2024)
Apr 08 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Common Cause filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Public Citizen filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amici curiae of Stephen R. McAllister and Scott Paul filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amici curiae of Claire Finkelstein and Fourteen Other National Security Professionals filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amici curiae of ACLU, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Puerto Rico House of Representatives filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Professor Martin S. Lederman filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 15 2024 Amicus brief of Thomas Ogden not accepted for filing. (April 16, 2024)
Apr 15 2024 Reply of petitioner Donald J. Trump filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 25 2024 Argued. For petitioner: D. John Sauer, St. Louis, Mo. For respondent: Michael R. Dreeben, Counselor to the Special Counsel, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C.
Jul 01 2024 Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED. Roberts, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined in full, and in which Barrett, J., joined except as to Part III-C. Thomas, J., filed a concurring opinion. Barrett, J., filed an opinion concurring in part. Sotomayor, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Kagan and Jackson, JJ., joined. Jackson, J., filed a dissenting opinion.
Aug 02 2024 Judgment Issued. (Rev. 8/5/24)
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Attorneys
Attorneys for Petitioner
D. John Sauer
Counsel of Record
James Otis Law Group, LLC
13321 North Outer Forty Rd.
Suite 300
St. Louis, MO 63017

John.Sauer@james-otis.com
Ph: 314-562-0031
Party name: Donald J. Trump


William Owen Scharf
James Otis Law Group LLC
13321 North Outer Forty Road
St. Louis, MO 63017

will@willscharf.com
Ph: 9172085566
Party name: Donald J. Trump


Attorneys for Respondents
Michael R. Dreeben
Counsel of Record
Counselor to the Special Counsel
Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20530

SCO_JLS_SupremeCtBriefs@usdoj.gov
Ph: 202-305-9654
Party name: United States


Other Attorneys
Dan Backer
Counsel of Record
Chalmers, Adams, Backer & Kaufman LLC
441 North Lee Street, Suite 300
Alexandria, VA 22314

DBACKER@CHALMERSADAMS.COM
Ph: 2022105431
Party name: Coolidge Reagan Foundation and Shaun McCutcheon


H. Christopher Bartolomucci
Counsel of Record
Schaerr | Jaffe LLP
1717 K Street NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006

CBARTOLOMUCCI@SCHAERR-JAFFE.COM
Ph: 202-787-1060
Party name: Three Former Senior Military Officers and Executive Branch Officials


Jeremy Charles Bates
Counsel of Record
21 West Street Apt 21J
New York, NY 10006

jeremybates3@gmail.com
Ph: 917-626-2473
Party name: Jeremy Bates


Richard Douglas Bernstein
Counsel of Record
1875 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006

rbernsteinlaw@gmail.com
Ph: 3017752064
Party name: John Danforth, et al.


David Christopher Boyle
Counsel of Record
PO Box 15143
Long Beach, CA 90815

dbo@boyleslaw.org
Ph: (734)-904-6132
Party name: David Boyle


David D. Cole
Counsel of Record
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
915 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005

dcole@aclu.org
Ph: 212-549-2611
Party name: AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA


Gregory L. Diskant
Counsel of Record
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

gldiskant@pbwt.com
Ph: (212) 336-2000
Party name: Common Cause


P. Benjamin DeWitt Duke
Counsel of Record
Covington & Burling
620 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10018

pbduke@cov.com
Ph: 212 8411072
Party name: Leadership Now Project


Joan Deborah Bolinsky Edelsohn
Counsel of Record
460 Center Street
Unit 6045
Moraga, CA 94570-6045

SAGEPropertiesLLC09@gmail.com
Ph: (415) 944-9509
Party name: G. Antaeus B. Edelsohn


Brianne Jenna Gorod
Counsel of Record
Constitutional Accountability Center
1200 18th Street, NW
Suite 501
Washington, DC 20036

BRIANNE@THEUSCONSTITUTION.ORG
Ph: 202 296 6889
Party name: Scholars of Constitutional Law


Dennis Grossman
Counsel of Record
6701 Sunset Drive
Suite 104
Miami, FL 33143

dagrossmanlaw@aol.com
Ph: 5164666690
Party name: Christian Family Coalition (CFC) Florida, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit Corporation


Kathleen Roberta Hartnett
Counsel of Record
Cooley LLP
3 Embarcadero Center
20th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111

KHARTNETT@COOLEY.COM
Ph: (415) 693-2000
Party name: Retired Four-Star Admirals and Generals, and Former Secretaries of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force


Mark Fernlund Hearne II
Counsel of Record
True North Law, LLC
112 S. Hanley Road
Suite 200
St. Louis, MO 63105

thor@truenorthlawgroup.com
Ph: (314) 296-4000
Party name: Former United States Attorney General John D. Ashcroft and Constitutional Coalition


Erik S. Jaffe
Counsel of Record
Schaerr | Jaffe LLP
1717 K Street, N.W., Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006

EJAFFE@SCHAERR-JAFFE.COM
Ph: 202-787-1060
Party name: Stephen R. McAllister and Scott Paul


Lawrence A. Kogan
Counsel of Record
The Kogan Law Group, P.C.
100 United Nations Plaza
Suite # 14F
New York, NY 10017

LKOGAN@KOGANLAWGROUP.COM
Ph: 917-565-1521
Party name: Citizens Equal Rights Foundation


Edmund Gerard LaCour Jr.
Counsel of Record
Office of the Attorney General
501 Washington Ave
Montgomery, AL 36130

EDMUND.LACOUR@ALABAMAAG.GOV
Ph: 334-242-7300
Party name: Alabama and 17 Other States


Martin Seth Lederman
Counsel of Record
600 New Jersey Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001

martin.lederman@law.georgetown.edu
Ph: 202-662-9937
Party name: Professor Martin S. Lederman


Jonathan Philip Lienhard
Counsel of Record
Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky Josefiak PLLC
15405 John Marshall Hwy
Haymarket, VA 20169

jlienhard@holtzmanvogel.com
Ph: 540-341-8808
Party name: National Republican Senatorial Committee and Senator Steve Daines


Jonathan Edward Maier
Counsel of Record
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics
1331 F Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20004

jmaier@citizensforethics.org
Ph: 2024085565
Party name: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington


Jorge Martinez-Luciano
Counsel of Record
ML & RE Law Office
Cobian's Plaza, Suite 404
1607 Ponce De Leon Ave.
San Juan, PR 00909

jorge@mlrelaw.com
Ph: 7879992972
Party name: Puerto Rico House of Representatives


Chad Dustin Morgan
Counsel of Record
Law Office of Chad Morgan, APC
1950 W. Corporate Way
#12279
Anaheim, CA 92801

chad@chadmorgan.com
Ph: (951) 667-1927
Party name: United States Justice Foundation & Policy Issues Institute, Inc.


Scott Lawrence Nelson
Counsel of Record
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009

SNELSON@CITIZEN.ORG
Ph: 202-588-1000
Party name: Public Citizen


Thomas Fuller Ogden
Counsel of Record
Attorney At Law
1108 W. Valley Blvd. 6-862
Alhambra, CA 91803

thomas@ogden.law
Ph: 16265923165
Party name: Thomas Ogden


William Jeffrey Olson
Counsel of Record
William J. Olson, P.C.
370 Maple Ave. W., Suite 4
Vienna, VA 22180

WJO@MINDSPRING.COM
Ph: 7033565070
Party name: America's Future, Judicial Action Group, Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Fdn., Gun Owners of Calif., Tenn. Firearms Assoc., Tenn. Firearms Fdn., U.S. Constitutional Rights Legal Def. Fund, and Conservative Legal Def. and Ed. Fund


Richard William Painter
Counsel of Record
University of Minnesota Law School
229 19th Avenue S.
Minneapolis MN, MN 55455

rpainter@umn.edu
Ph: 6126269707
Party name: CLAIRE FINKELSTEIN AND FOURTEEN NATIONAL SECURITY PROFESSIONALS


George T. Pallas
Counsel of Record
George T. Pallas, P.A.
2420 Coral Way
Miami, FL 33145

george@pallaslaw.com
Ph: 3058568580
Party name: Condemned USA


Edward Andrew Paltzik
Counsel of Record
Bochner PLLC
1040 Avenue of the Americas
15th Floor
New York, NY 10018

edward@bochner.law
Ph: 5165260341
Party name: Gavin M. Wax, New York Young Republican Club Inc., National Constitutional Law Union Inc., and Paul Ingrassia


Lawrence Saul Robbins
Counsel of Record
Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP
7 Times Square
28th Floor
New York, NY 10036-6516

LROBBINS@FKLAW.COM
Ph: 212-833-1118
Party name: Scholars of the Founding Era


Gene Clayton Schaerr
Counsel of Record
Schaerr | Jaffe
1717 K Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006

GSCHAERR@SCHAERR-JAFFE.COM
Ph: 202-787-1060
Party name: Former Attorneys General Edwin Meese III and Michael B. Mukasey; Law Professors Steven Calabresi and Gary Lawson; and Citizens United


Jay Alan Sekulow
Counsel of Record
American Center for Law and Justice
201 Maryland Avenue, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002

sekulow@aclj.org
Ph: 2025468890
Party name: The American Center for Law and Justice


Allen James Shoff
Counsel of Record
Davillier Law Group
414 Church Street, Suite 106
Sandpoint, ID 83864

ashoff@davillierlawgroup.com
Ph: 2089206140
Party name: Guardian Defense Fund, Inc.


Judd Edward Stone II
Counsel of Record
Stone | Hilton PLLC
P.O. Box 150112
Austin, TX 78715

judd@stonehilton.com
Ph: (737) 465-7248
Party name: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall and Twenty-Six Other Members of Congress


George J. Terwilliger III
Counsel of Record
Terwilliger Law PLLC
PO Box 74
Delaplane, VA 20144

george@gjt3law.com
Ph: (202) 255-0553
Party name: Former White House Chief of Staff Mark R. Meadows


Craig Lee Uhrich
Counsel of Record
McGowne & Uhrich P.A.
222 Center Avenue
Oakley, KS 67748

craig@bochner.law
Ph: 720-878-7688
Party name: Kansas Republican Party and 17 Other State and Territorial Republican Parties


Seth P. Waxman
Counsel of Record
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
2100 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20037

SETH.WAXMAN@WILMERHALE.COM
Ph: 202-663-6000
Party name: Former Government Officials and Constitutional Lawyers


George Robinson Wentz Jr.
Davillier Law Group LLC
935 Gravier Street
Ste. 1702
New Orleans, LA 70112

gwentz@davillierlawgroup.com
Ph: (504) 582-6998
Party name: Guardian Defense Fund, Inc.


Matthew Daniel Wilson
Counsel of Record
The Law Office of Matthew Wilson, PLLC
2218-B West Main Street
Tupelo, MS 38801

lawyermatt@betteraskmatt.com
Ph: 16622606544
Party name: Matthew D. Wilson


David Anthony Yost
Counsel of Record
Ohio Attorney General
30 E. Broad Street, 17th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215

dave.yost@ohioago.gov
Ph: 614-466-8980
Party name: States of Ohio, Alaska, and Wyoming