Legal scholars: SCOTUS gave Trump a "big hammer" -- and he may use it to undo NY conviction

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : She said: "Even if the prosecution were to argue: Well, you need to look at what they talked about -- to me, Trump has a reasonable argument that how he likes to conduct, how he likes to do his job, how does he like to take phone calls, that he doesn't like to do emails, that he likes to move documents in various ways onto Air Force One -- to me, that's reasonably within the sphere of an official duty." PROSECUTION COULD FIGHT ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY CLAIMS
40% : "There's an opening there for the prosecution to argue that even though it was an official White House Twitter account and Trump had an official White House person helping him write the tweets, that the content of the tweets themselves render them unofficial.
35% : And his lawyers said he has at least presumptive immunity for the parts of Westerhout's testimony detailing her work with Trump and her observations about how he exercised his executive authority.
34% : " "In the Trump immunity case, the Supreme Court gave Trump a big hammer, a stick, a really powerful weapon to go smash up the cases that have been brought against him," said College of Charleston professor Claire Wofford, who teaches constitutional law and American government.
32% : Prosecutors used such evidence to portray Trump as a micro-manager so worried that stories of alleged extramarital sex would decimate his 2016 campaign that he drove a hush money scheme that he ultimately concealed using falsified records -- some of which he signed himself.
29% : Jurors in the Manhattan criminal trial in May found Trump guilty of 34 charges of falsifying business records - including invoices, accounting ledger entries and checks - as part of a scheme to disguise $130,000 in hush money as a legal expense and keep potentially damaging stories about alleged extramarital encounters from voters.
27% : Trump's lawyers called Hicks a "key subordinate" on whom Trump relied.
24% : Each of the 34 count carries up to four years in prison -- though legal experts said Trump would likely serve less than four years given his previous lack of a criminal record.
23% : " William Brennan, an attorney who represented Trump in his second U.S. Senate impeachment trial and in a Trump payroll tax case before Judge Merchan, said the judge could grant a new trial where jurors couldn't hear testimony from witnesses about Trump's conduct as president.
18% : " TRUMP'S FIGHT AGAINST PROSECUTION'S EVIDENCE Trump's lawyers say prosecutors "tainted" the grand jury proceedings and the trial by relying on evidence that jurors never should have heard - including testimony from his former White House communications director Hope Hicks about her conversations with Trump and former special assistant Madeleine Westerhout's observations about Trump's Oval Office conduct.
15% : " Trump's lawyers are also arguing prosecutors shouldn't be able to defend their use of Trump's tweets by pointing to witnesses -- Daniels and Cohen -- who have offered "implausible opinions" about why Trump made the posts.
14% : " Wofford said Trump is referring to the "harmless error standard," which refers to errors that would have "no reasonable possibility of affecting the verdict.
12% : Referring to Trump's D.C. case, the justices said Trump "'appeared to concede" that some of the alleged conduct involved "'private actors'" who helped submit "'fraudulent slaters of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.'

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