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The Hill reports:
Former President Trump on Wednesday asked a judge to dismiss the whole of the government’s election interference case against him, arguing all his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are protected by presidential immunity. “As the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and hundreds of years of history and tradition all make clear, the President’s motivations are not for the prosecution or this Court to decide. Rather, where, as here, the President’s actions are within the ambit of his office, he is absolutely immune from prosecution.”
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NEWS: Trump files to dismiss his Washington, D.C. indictment, claiming he is immune from prosecution over his status as president at the time of the charged conduct.https://t.co/JgPbc9heei
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 5, 2023
Trump claims that becuase the Senate acquitted him, he can’t be criminally charged for similar conduct.
For starters, his charges in the D.C. indictment don’t remotely resemble the impeachment charge, which came months before crucial evidence emerged. https://t.co/JgPbc9heei pic.twitter.com/IqGZAOGfTL
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 5, 2023
Mitch McConnell would find it interesting that Trump thinks the decision to acquit him in impeachment trial now renders him immune from prosecution. McConnell said the next day in floor remarks that Trump could be held criminally accountable. https://t.co/JgPbc9heei pic.twitter.com/RDumMU5sFc
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 5, 2023
Trump almost certainly could not get votes to be speaker given number of Rs in tough districts who won’t want to end their careers for him.
BUT…this could be Trump’s first visit to the Capitol since Jan. 6, 2021. Closest he’s come is US district court across the street. https://t.co/kgf8B6xxMX
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 5, 2023
Hard to see anything attractive about speakership to Trump except for how it might advance his personal legal morass: Ability to subpoena or immunize witnesses, hold people in contempt, attempt to defund investigators, etc.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 5, 2023
And as he’s learned through a series of defeats in court, Speech/Debate clause protection is significantly more potent than executive privilege.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 5, 2023