(CNN) Lawsuits involving Donald Trump tore apart the Supreme Court while he was president, and the justices apparently remain riven by him. The controversy appeared to culminate at the Supreme Court last July, when the justices rejected Trump's claim that a sitting president is absolutely immune from criminal proceedings. Vance agreed to wait to enforce the long-pending subpoena until the justices acted on Trump's emergency request. Trump's lawyers indeed pressed those claims in a second round but were rejected by lower US appeals court judges. On the 5-4 court, Roberts, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, was at the ideological middle.

Source: CNN February 18, 2021 11:03 UTC