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Docket for 23-939

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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:
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Questions Presented

Date	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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NAME	ADDRESS	PHONE
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 Scharf	James 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