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Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu describes what it was like inside the Supreme Court as the justices issued a ruling granting former President Donald Trump partial immunity from special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case.

STORY: :: July 1, 2024 :: Biden says Supreme Court's immunity ruling sets a 'dangerous precedent' :: Washington, D.C. :: "This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America. Each, each of us is equal before the law. No one, no one is above the law. Not even the President of United States. But with today's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity that fundamentally changed. For all, for all practical purposes, today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do. This is a fundamentally new principle, and it's a dangerous precedent because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the Supreme Court of the United States. The only limits will be self-imposed by the president alone." :: "The American people must decide whether Donald Trump's assault on our democracy on January 6th makes him unfit for public office in the highest office in the land. The American people must decide if Trump's embrace of violence to preserve his power is acceptable. Perhaps most importantly, the American people must decide if they want to entrust the president once again, the presidency to Donald Trump now knowing he'll be more emboldened to do whatever he pleases whenever he wants to do it." In calm, measured remarks from the White House, Biden said the decision meant Trump was highly unlikely to go on trial before the Nov. 5 election for his role in seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election . The U.S. Supreme Court found on Monday that Trump cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were within his constitutional powers as president, but can be for private acts, in a landmark ruling recognizing for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution. Biden is running for re-election against Trump and has been sharply critical of his rival's actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, raid on the U.S. Capitol by Trump's supporters, who believed Trump's false claims that he had won the 2020 election.

Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb talks to CNN’s Erica Hill after the Supreme Court’s decision to grant Donald Trump partial immunity from special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case.

The Supreme Court rules that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. This delays further the Washington criminal case against ex-President Donald Trump that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss.

The Supreme Court on Monday capped its term by determining core presidential powers are immune from criminal prosecution, a win for former President Trump that returns his federal case involving efforts to overturn the 2020 election back to a lower court to determine whether his actions leading up to Jan. 6 merit the protection.

President Joe Biden's re-election campaign is scrambling to ease concerns after his poor debate performance against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. ABC News' Selina Wang joins the show.

A lower court judge must determine if the charges brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith in the election interference case against Donald Trump relate to official or unofficial presidential acts.

STORY: The northern English town of Leigh voted in a Conservative member of parliament for the first time at the UK's last general election. Locals hoped for a promised transformation of the once-thriving coal and manufacturing area. But over four years later, and just days until the next national ballot, the signs of economic hardship and neglect remain. Many shops on Leigh's main shopping street are boarded up. Housing and homelessness are also big issues here. John Riedyard used to work in a textile mill in Leigh. He was one of those who voted Conservative in 2019. "As you can see the town's died, we were a thriving community, everybody was happy and it's gone. There's no laughter in the streets like it used to be, and that mill and miners was the heart and soul of the country, and apart from that it's just desolate." At the 2019 general election, then-prime minister Boris Johnson persuaded voters in dozens of towns like Leigh in northern and central England to elect a Conservative candidate for the first time. Those areas in the country's former industrial heartland, known as the Red Wall, were previously strongholds of the opposition Labour party. But Johnson's pledge to "get Brexit done" resonated with an electorate tired of Britain's slow negotiations to withdraw from the EU. Voters were also swayed by his promises of "levelling up" - a policy of investing in local projects to regenerate deprived areas. Many of them now feel betrayed. And polls predict that the Conservatives will lose all the seats in Red Wall areas in Thursday's vote, helping Labour to a landslide victory. Farai Nhakaniso is a local Labour campaigner. "People in Leigh are struggling far worse compared to five years ago, based on the cost of living crisis that we're facing as a nation at the moment, and places like Leigh are being hit the hardest because we had a Conservative MP that didn't stick up for people locally here in the Leigh constituency and we need a change to that." Leigh was assigned $40 million to redevelop the town center under the "levelling up" plan. But Reuters has found more than 99% of those funds have not been spent - with the cash caught up in local political and bureaucratic quarrels. Other areas of Britain follow a similar pattern. Parliament's public accounts committee said in March that nationally just over 10% of the more than 12-billion-dollar local regeneration funds have been spent. Of the 44 voters who spoke to Reuters in Leigh, only one planned to vote Conservative this time around. Michael Winstanley, the Tory candidate, said he "would have liked to have seen more" money spent on regenerating the town. But he blames the Labour-run local council for failing to have a clear plan. Labour said if it wins Thursday's (July 4) election it will give more powers to local leaders - and would drop the term "levelling up" to mark a break with Conservative policies.

CNN political commentators Van Jones and Scott Jennings weigh in on the Supreme Court’s ruling that Donald Trump may claim immunity from criminal prosecution for some of the actions he took in the waning days of his presidency in a decision that will likely further delay a trial on the federal election subversion charges pending against him.

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig explains why the Supreme Court ruling that Donald Trump may claim immunity from criminal prosecution for some of the actions he took in the waning days of his presidency in a decision will likely further delay a trial on the federal election subversion charges pending against him.

The first round of the French parliamentary elections is over and the far-right party is in the lead. Max Foster speaks to Jean Leiseur about why he was not surprised by this outcome.

CNN’s Jim Bittermann reports on the end of the first round of parliamentary elections in France.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday voted in the first round of an exceptional parliamentary election that could put the French government in the hands of nationalist, far-right parties for the first time since the Nazi era. LEGAL NOTICE: Subscribers should ensure their broadcasters on any medium during the period FRIDAY 28 JUNE AT 2200GMT TO SUNDAY 30 JUNE AT 1800GMT comply with the French electoral code, notably ARTICLE L49 ELECTORAL CODE, which prohibits the broadcast or publication by any means of communication, to the French public, messages that have the character of “electoral propaganda.”

The president of France's National Rally party Jordan Bardella votes in legislative elections that could put the French government in the hands of nationalist, far-right parties for the first time since the Nazi era. LEGAL NOTICE: Subscribers should ensure their broadcasters on any medium during the period FRIDAY 28 JUNE AT 2200GMT TO SUNDAY 30 JUNE AT 1800GMT comply with the French electoral code, notably ARTICLE L49 ELECTORAL CODE, which prohibits the broadcast or publication by any means of communication, to the French public, messages that have the character of “electoral propaganda.”