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Posted: 2024-01-10T09:15:22Z | Updated: 2024-01-10T12:54:47Z

Law professors, attorneys and legal analysts have roundly dismissed Donald Trump s claim to have absolute immunity from prosecution for any acts he committed when president.

Trumps attorneys on Tuesday argued to a three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that presidents cant be prosecuted unless they are impeached and then convicted by the Senate. The claim came as Trumps legal team sought to nix felony charges against the former president for his role in inciting the deadly U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

The argument was greeted with skepticism from the panel.

As it was by legal experts commenting on the claim.

Harvard University constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe told MSNBC s Lawrence ODonnell it was a ridiculous argument.

He said, It would be absolutely astonishing if any panel of judges, let alone a panel as qualified and smart as this one, were to give the Trump argument the time of day.

He added, Its not an argument that any real lawyer would have come up with and makes no sense.

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