09-01-2024, 16:55
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: Trump’s Troubles
https://wapo.st/3SaUsny
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In a potentially worrisome sign for former president Donald Trump, the three-judge panel’s lone Republican appointee, Karen Henderson, told Trump’s attorney, “I think it’s paradoxical to say that his [a president’s] constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal laws.”
Judges Karen Henderson and Florence Pan both raised a point made in the special counsel’s briefs — that Donald Trump is now making the exact opposite argument to the one he made during his 2021 impeachment trial, when his lawyers told senators that a former president should face the criminal justice system rather than condemnation by Congress.
Trump attorney D. John Sauer replied that the impeachment lawyers were simply saying, “We have a judicial process in this country, period,” but they “did not say we could never raise an immunity defense.”
Pan replied with a quote from one of Trump’s impeachment attorneys saying definitively that there was no immunity: “We have an investigative process in this country to which no former officeholder is immune.”
Sauer said he was not bound by Trump’s past arguments, but also tried to split hairs by saying investigation was different from prosecution.
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