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
   Rehearing Denied:
  Discretionary Court Decision Date:
Questions Presented

DateProceedings and Orders
Feb 12 2024Application (23A745) for a stay, submitted to The Chief Justice.
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Feb 12 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed.
Feb 13 2024Response to application (23A745) requested by The Chief Justice, due February 20, 2024, by 4pm (EST).
Feb 13 2024Brief 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 2024Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Law Scholars filed.
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Feb 14 2024Response to application from respondent United States filed.
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Feb 14 2024Brief amicus curiae of Protect Democracy Project filed.
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Feb 15 2024Reply of applicant Donald J. Trump filed.
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Feb 15 2024Brief amicus curiae of David Boyle filed.
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Feb 16 2024Brief amicus curiae of Alabama and 21 Other States filed.
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Feb 19 2024Brief amicus curiae of Christian Family Coalition filed.
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Feb 19 2024Brief amicus curiae of Jeremy Bates filed.
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Feb 20 2024Brief 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 2024Application (23A745) referred to the Court.
Feb 28 2024Petition GRANTED.
Feb 28 2024The 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 2024Record requested from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Mar 01 2024Record received electronically from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and available with the Clerk.
Mar 01 2024Record received from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The record is electronic and is available on PACER.
Mar 06 2024SET FOR ARGUMENT on Thursday, April 25, 2024.
Mar 12 2024Brief amicus curiae of Matthew D. Wilson filed.
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Mar 18 2024Brief amicus curiae of Guardian Defense Fund, Inc. in support of neither party filed. (Distributed)
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Mar 19 2024Brief amici curiae of Alabama and 17 Other States filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief of petitioner Donald J. Trump filed.
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Mar 19 2024Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)
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Mar 19 2024Brief amicus curiae of Condemned USA filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief amici curiae of Coolidge Reagan Foundation, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief amicus curiae of Senator Steve Daines and National Republican Senatorial Committee filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief amici curiae of Ohio, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief amicus curiae of The American Center for Law and Justice filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief amici curiae of United States Justice Foundation, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief 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 2024Brief amici curiae of Three Former Senior Military Officers and Executive Branch Officials filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief amici curiae of Kansas Republican Party and 17 Other State and Territorial Republican Parties filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief 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 2024Brief amicus curiae of Christian Family Coalition (CFC) Florida, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit Corporation filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief amici curiae of America's Future, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief amici curiae of Gavin M. Wax, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief amicus curiae of Former White House Chief of Staff Mark R. Meadows in support of neither party filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief amici curiae of U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, et al. filed.
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Mar 19 2024Brief amicus curiae of Citizens Equal Rights Foundation in support of neither party filed. (Distributed)
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Mar 19 2024Brief amicus curiae of David Boyle in support of neither party filed. (Distributed)
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Mar 22 2024CIRCULATED
Mar 29 2024Any motion pertaining to the oral argument in this case shall be filed on or before Monday, April 8, 2024.
Apr 04 2024Brief amici curiae of John Danforth, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 05 2024Brief amicus curiae of G. Antaeus B. Edelsohn filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief of respondent United States filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief amicus curiae of Leadership Now Project filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief amicus curiae of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief amicus curiae of Jeremy Bates filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief amici curiae of Scholars of Constitutional Law filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief amici curiae of Former Government Officials and Constitutional Lawyers filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief 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 2024Brief amici curiae of Scholars of the Founding Era filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Amicus brief of Common Cause not accepted for filing. (April 10, 2024)
Apr 08 2024Brief amicus curiae of Common Cause filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief amicus curiae of Public Citizen filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief amici curiae of Stephen R. McAllister and Scott Paul filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief amici curiae of Claire Finkelstein and Fourteen Other National Security Professionals filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief amici curiae of ACLU, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief amicus curiae of Puerto Rico House of Representatives filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 08 2024Brief amicus curiae of Professor Martin S. Lederman filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 15 2024Amicus brief of Thomas Ogden not accepted for filing. (April 16, 2024)
Apr 15 2024Reply of petitioner Donald J. Trump filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 25 2024Argued. 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 2024Judgment 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 2024Judgment Issued. (Rev. 8/5/24)
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NAMEADDRESSPHONE
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		314-562-0031
Party name: Donald J. Trump
William Owen ScharfJames Otis Law Group LLC
13321 North Outer Forty Road
St. Louis, MO 63017

will@willscharf.com		9172085566
Party name: Donald J. Trump
Attorneys for Respondent
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		202-305-9654
Party name: United States
Other
Dan Backer
    Counsel of Record		Chalmers, Adams, Backer & Kaufman LLC
441 North Lee Street, Suite 300
Alexandria, VA 22314

DBACKER@CHALMERSADAMS.COM		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		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		917-626-2473
Party name: Jeremy Bates
Richard Douglas Bernstein
    Counsel of Record		1875 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006

rbernsteinlaw@gmail.com		3017752064
Party name: John Danforth, et al.
David Christopher Boyle
    Counsel of Record		PO Box 15143
Long Beach, CA 90815

dbo@boyleslaw.org		(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		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		(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		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		(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		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		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		(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		(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		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		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		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		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		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		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		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		(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		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		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		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		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		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		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		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		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		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		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		(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		(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		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		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		(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		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		614-466-8980
Party name: States of Ohio, Alaska, and Wyoming