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Cite as:  603 U. S. ____ (2024) 

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Opinion of the Court 

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

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No. 23–939 
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DONALD J. TRUMP, PETITIONER v. 
UNITED STATES 

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF 
APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT 

[July 1, 2024]

 CHIEF  JUSTICE  ROBERTS  delivered  the  opinion  of  the 

Court. 

This  case  concerns  the  federal  indictment  of  a  former 
President of the United States for conduct alleged to involve 
official  acts  during  his  tenure  in  office.    We  consider  the 
scope of a President’s immunity from criminal prosecution. 

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From  January  2017  until  January  2021,  Donald  J. 
Trump served as President of the United States.  On Au-
gust  1,  2023,  a  federal  grand  jury  indicted  him  on  four 
counts for conduct that occurred during his Presidency fol-
lowing the November 2020 election.  The indictment alleged
that after losing that election, Trump conspired to overturn 
it by spreading knowingly false claims of election fraud to
obstruct the collecting, counting, and certifying of the elec-
tion results. 

According  to  the  indictment,  Trump  advanced  his  goal
through five primary means.  First, he and his co-conspirators 
“used knowingly false claims of election fraud to get state
legislators  and  election  officials  to  . . .  change  electoral