Trump Claims Near Limitless Power in D.C. Immunity Hearing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "It's paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal laws," she said.
53% : "There's also an interest in law enforcement in enforcing criminal laws," she said.
30% : Judge Florence Y. Pan seemed shocked when the former president's lawyer asserted that Trump could not be prosecuted for any crime committed during his time in office as long as it has the sheen of an "official act" -- merely because he wasn't impeached for it first.
30% : Sauer claimed to "disagree" with judges' reading of the plain congressional record and called it "speculation" to infer what was on Republican senators' minds when they chose to exonerate Trump.
29% : As Trump himself was in the D.C. courtroom, three federal appellate judges took turns ripping apart the ideas put forward by defense lawyer D. John Sauer, who previously clerked with the conservative Justice Antonin Scalia and later served as Missouri's solicitor general.
28% : The former president is trying to assert a never-before-seen level of raw power in an effort to avoid being criminally investigated and prosecuted by Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith, who employed a grand jury to indict Trump with felonies last year.
25% : Trump is locked in a historic battle over his 2020 election interference and attempts to argue that he's immune from prosecution over any supposed crime because he was the president at the time.
21% : Sauer would later push back strongly on the idea that Trump was trying to remain "above the law," calling any accusation empty and scarier sounding than it actually is.

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