"Be careful what you ask for": Experts warn Trump's "immunity" filing could backfire with judges

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Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Saturday asked a federal appeals court to toss his D.C. election subversion case, arguing that he has “presidential immunity.”

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Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman predicted that the appellate court judges are not going to like Trump’s argument.

“I think the court of appeals is not going to be very welcoming of this general immunity argument. What he's trying to say, basically, is he was acting as president not as a candidate, not trying to do anything wrong just looking out for the election integrity,” Litman told CNN.

"I don't think that's a position that's going to fly," he continued. "On the other hand, right now it does delay the start of the trial and in that sense, he gets an important advantage on one level."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/careful-ask-experts-warn-trump-133419841.html

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1. I bet Aileen Cannon thinks so.

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2. And I wonder too, since tRUMP is claiming to not taken the oath, that he never was the president to begin w/,

thus he doesn't have any immunity at all, doesn't have any presidential powers at all.

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3. If TFG is immune, then so is President Biden

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4. Biden Could Kill Donald Trump And Not Be Prosecuted, Under Trump's Own Legal Theory

I hope that the DC Court of Appeals ask TFG's attorneys about this.

Link to tweet

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-trump-presidential-immunity_n_65943b0fe4b0f27b6e356793

WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden could, in theory, have Donald Trump abducted from his Mar-a-Lago home, spirited off to St. Helena in the faraway South Atlantic, and secretly kept there indefinitely, or even straight-up killed, without ever having to worry about criminal charges.

Or so says Donald Trump’s logic.

As part of his arguments against special counsel Jack Smith’s federal case against him for his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, the former president continues to claim that commanders-in-chief can never be charged for anything they do as part of their official duties.....

Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago, said that as outlandish as the Biden example sounds, if Trump’s view of presidential immunity is correct, Biden could get away with it ― “as long as he could assert some sort of national security rationale for doing so.”

Neither Trump’s campaign staff nor his lawyers responded to HuffPost’s queries. But his lawyers have repeatedly argued that everything Trump did leading up to and during the assault on the Capitol by a mob of his followers was part of his “official” duties as president, and therefore cannot be punished via the criminal justice system.

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5. Prof. Tribe has a question for TFG's attorneys for oral argument on immunity issue

Link to tweet