Appeals court seems skeptical of Trump's immunity claim - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : He warned of "an extraordinarily frightening future" if a president could order the military to murder a rival and then escape criminal liability by simply resigning before he could be impeached or otherwise avoid a conviction in the Senate.
60% : When the hearing ended, Trump stood up with the rest of the packed courtroom as the three judges left, then looked over his shoulder at the audience and slowly walked out of the room through a side door, followed by his legal team.
46% : Several times while James Pearce, who represented the government, was speaking, Trump and his lawyers exchanged notes on a yellow legal pad.
45% : The pace and outcome of the immunity question will play a major role in deciding when -- or whether -- Trump will go to trial in the election interference case.
43% : Trump attended the hearing in person even though he was not required to be there.
37% : He was largely stone-faced, but when the panel's two Democratic appointees -- Judge J. Michelle Childs and Judge Florence Pan -- were questioning Sauer, Trump leaned forward in his chair and stared intently at them.
35% : Chutkan has put the underlying case, in which Trump is facing four criminal counts related to his efforts to remain in office after his election loss, on hold until the issue is resolved.
32% : In one tough moment for Trump during the hearing Tuesday, Henderson rebutted Sauer's argument that for more than 200 years, American courts had never sat in judgment over actions that a president had taken while in office.
31% : They could also go a long way in determining the timing of the three other criminal trials Trump is facing in the months ahead.
27% : As Trump looked on, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit peppered his lawyer D. John Sauer with tough questions about his assertion that his client could not be prosecuted for actions he took while in the White House.
27% : Regardless of how the panel ultimately rules, the issue of immunity is likely to reach the Supreme Court, which is already hearing another crucial question about whether Trump can be removed from state ballots.
26% : Henderson pointed out that until Trump was indicted, courts had never had to consider the criminal liability of former presidents for things they had done while in the White House.
13% : Pearce, speaking for the prosecution, disagreed, arguing that Trump was an aberration and that prosecuting him would not result in an onslaught of partisan indictments.

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