The upshot is that the law on civil immunity allows Trump to be a plaintiff and file lawsuits to advance both his personal and political interests, but everyone else is constrained by Trump’s immunity any time he can plausibly claim that his conduct has something to do with his role as president.

The defamation case filed in Miami federal court claims that the newspaper's report from July 17 linking Trump with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein defamed the president and caused him to suffer "ov

A Wall Street Journal report on ties between the US president and Jeffrey Epstein is a fresh blow to an old, mutually beneficial alliance.