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Trump insists Nixon’s pardon helps his immunity argument

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump leaves State Supreme Court in Manhattan, on Monday, April 15, 2024, in New York, after the first day of his trial on charges of falsifying business records.

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump leaves State Supreme Court in Manhattan, on Monday, April 15, 2024, in New York, after the first day of his trial on charges of falsifying business records. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Former President Donald Trump continued to push his case for presidential immunity over his federal criminal charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol Complex in a Monday reply brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Attorneys for the 45th president grappled with legal arguments advanced by special counsel Jack Smith in the government’s initial brief filed last week — particularly those arguments concerning similarly-situated former President Richard Nixon.

While the government raised the specter of Nixon and his career-ending Watergate scandal in negative terms, Trump’s attorneys leaned into the example by arguing the legal fallout from that contretemps actually proved points for post-presidency immunity.

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