Judges Seem Skeptical of Trump's Claim of Immunity

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Pearce said it was a terrifying prospect that a president could use the military to kill a rival and then escape criminal liability by simply resigning before he could be impeached.
46% : Its pace and outcome will be central in deciding when -- or even whether -- Trump will go to trial in the election interference case, which is unfolding in U.S. District Court in Washington.
45% : All of the judges on the three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit -- composed of two Democratic appointees and one Republican appointee -- peppered a lawyer for Trump with tough questions about arguments he raised to support the immunity claims.
36% : It could also go a long way in determining the timing of the three other criminal trials that Trump is facing in the months ahead.
36% : In one tough moment for Trump, who was present for the hearing but did not speak, Judge Karen Henderson, the sole Republican appointee on the panel, pushed back on an argument made by his lawyer, D. John Sauer, that for more than 200 years American courts had never sat in judgment over official actions that a president had taken while in office.
34% : Pearce fended off a question by the judges asking if a ruling denying Trump immunity would trigger a flood of partisan charges against future presidents by arguing that Trump was a unique case as the only president in U.S. history to have been charged with a crime.
27% : Henderson pointed out that until Trump was indicted, courts had never had to consider the criminal liability of former presidents for things they did in the White House.
26% : Henderson also seemed less than convinced by Sauer's argument that Trump was acting in his role as president and upholding his constitutional duty to preserve the integrity of the election when he sought to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden.

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