Trump still facing flood of lawsuits with no help from the Supreme Court: report

Just because Donald Trump won re-election doesn't mean his legal problems will go up in a puff of smoke with a big assist from the conservative Supreme Court.

The president-elect was granted a lifeline by the court on July 1st, when Chief Justice John Roberts penned a 6-3 opinion that granted the former president with blanket immunity if whatever he does is within his constitutional duty.

That ruling, in turn, undercut several criminal indictments the president-elect was facing in both federal and state courts as well as sentencing after being convicted in a Manhattan courtroom on fraud charges.

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However, as Bloomberg is reporting, after Trump returns to the Oval Office, he will still have to deal with a handful of civil suits that are beyond the reach of the nation's highest court.

As Bloomberg's Zoe Tilman wrote, "President-elect Donald Trump will bring legal baggage to the White House in January, even if he succeeds in pausing or getting rid of the four federal and state criminal indictments against him."

Specifically, the re-elected ex-president will still have to put up a defense in at least a dozen lawsuits that will proceed despite his election win.

"Ongoing cases include attempts to hold him liable for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and his appeals of a $454 million New York civil fraud verdict and rulings that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll," the report notes before adding that "Trump is a defendant in eight lawsuits over the Jan. 6 attack brought by law enforcement officers, congressional Democrats and the estate of a police officer who died," which a judge has already ruled is not absolved by the immunity ruling.

Trump's lawyers are also attempting to fend off a civil suit filed by member of the so-called "Central Park Five" after he made allegedly defamatory comments about them during a presidential debate in September.

The report adds that the president-elect has a few civil suits of his own that his lawyers filed that will also occupy some of his time that include suing journalist Bob Woodward, CBS, ABC and CNN.

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