The additional round of briefing was ordered after the DC Circuit heard arguments on the dispute over Trump’s potential immunity. Giuliani, a 76-year-old man, is getting into fist fights.” He fights, he fights.’ No reasonable listener would understand that metaphorical statement to suggest that Mr.
“For example, he stated, in reference to Rudy Giuliani, ‘He’s got guts. “President Trump’s use of the word ‘fight’ was clearly metaphorical, referring to a political ‘fight,’ not a literal fistfight or other violent interaction,” his filing said. Trump argued that even if presidential immunity does not cover conduct that incites violence, his speech at the rally that preceded the riot would still be protected because he ���never instructed the crowd to engage in unlawful activity.” The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals is considering whether the former president can be held liable for his conduct in the lead-up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol in a civil lawsuit brought by US Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers. “DOJ’s new carve out is a sui generis rule applied ex post facto that has no underlying principle or explanation beyond ‘we think what President Trump did was bad,’” Trump argued in the new filing. Such an exemption to presidential immunity would throw “open the doors for civil claims against a President and creates a stricter standard for a President than for ordinary federal officials, who have successfully claimed qualified immunity on far more egregious facts," Trump's filing said. The Justice Department has argued that Trump cannot be immune in the lawsuits if he was found to have incited violence, something Trump’s new filing called an "unprecedented specific carve out" to presidential immunity. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)įormer President Donald Trump stood by his broad claims of immunity against January 6-related lawsuits brought against him by police officers and congressional Democrats in a Thursday court filing with a federal appeals court. President Donald Trump listens during a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House Apin Washington, DC.
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