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When one judge asked a Trump’s attorney if a president who ordered the assassination of a political rival could be charged, the attorney appeared to equivocate, saying the president would first have to have been impeached and convicted by the Senate in order to be prosecuted.

“I think it’s paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal law,” said Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, an appointee of former President George H.W. Bush.

As one appeals court judge pointed out, Trump's defense could literally let a president get away with murder.

Get a creative analysis from John, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General and UC Berkeley Law Professor, on the questioning in Trump's immunity case.

Legal experts trashed Trump lawyer's "outlandish and illogical" arguments as court appears set to reject immunity

Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing Trump's D.C. case, was also the victim of a similar call

Trump’s legal team sought to convince judges that former presidents should not be prosecuted for actions in office.

DC Circuit Court of Appeals panel considers Trump's claims that presidential immunity shields him from charges of 2020 election fraud

Donald Trump arrived in a Washington court Tuesday to argue that as a former US president he should be immune from prosecution on charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 election.

If the judges rule in favor of Trump, it could lead to the dropping of the criminal charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith

“It is very, very powerful evidence" of Trump's intent, says ex-U.S. Attorney Harry Litman