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ACLU strongly rejects Trump’s SCOTUS immunity arguments

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he watches play on the 18th hole green during the final round of LIV Golf Miami, at Trump National Doral Golf Club, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Attorneys representing various branches of the American Civil Liberties Union have weighed in on former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch plea for presidential immunity over his Jan. 6 charges, saying efforts to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss Trump’s Washington, D.C.-based criminal case should be soundly rejected.

And, the brief argues, democracy itself is at stake.

“In this case, the former President seeks the power to engage in criminal activity and forever evade the accountability that all others must face,” the civil liberties lawyers argue in their 27-page friend of the court filing. “At root, it concerns nothing less than whether the United States is a government of laws in which all citizens, including the President, are subject to the nation’s criminal laws, or one in which the President stands immune from criminal prosecution even for blatantly criminal conduct, and even after leaving office.”

Attorneys Cecillia D. Wang, David D. Cole, and Brett Max Kaufman with the national ACLU, along with Scott Michelman and Arthur B. Spitzer with the ACLU’s branch in the federal district, signed the amicus brief filed with the nation’s highest court on Monday.

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