Fox’s first appearance: The National Republican Senatorial Committee and Chairman Steve Daines (R-Mont.) filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on Tuesday supporting former President Donald Trump’s appeal of presidential immunity in his federal election interference case.
Trump’s lawyers in the federal case filed briefs on the issue Tuesday, detailing the legal arguments they plan to make during oral arguments in court on April 25.
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Trump’s lawyers say that if the Supreme Court does not uphold presidential immunity, “all future presidents will be crippled by de facto blackmail and extortion while in office, and will not be able to survive after taking office at the hands of their political opponents.” “He will be traumatized for many years to come.” ”
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump gestures to supporters after speaking at the Get Out the Vote rally at Winthrop University on February 23, 2024 in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Former President Trump is campaigning in South Carolina ahead of the Republican presidential primary on February 24th. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
In court briefs obtained by Fox News Digital, Daines and the NRSC denounced the D.C. Circuit’s opinion denying President Trump’s immunity request, saying the decision “precludes future litigants from asserting against the president. , it’s like having a loaded gun on the table.” (and the former president) supported all political persuasions. ”
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“The role of Congress, not the courts, is to hold presidents accountable for their actions while in office,” Daines said in a statement obtained by Fox. “The Democratic Party’s legal battle against President Trump is a slippery slope that will lead our country down a dark path.” Ta. News Digital.
The commission argued that if the circuit court’s decision is upheld, “subsequent criminal prosecutions against the former president will be easier than the initial criminal prosecution.”
The brief further raised scenarios in which President Biden could face the consequences of such a decision. “What if in the future a Republican-appointed U.S. attorney attempts to pursue criminal charges against President Biden for failing to implement presidential policies?” [on the southern border]?” Mr Daines and the NRSC asked.
Citing the broad provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the committee said, “These are the kind of “criminal laws of general application” that the D.C. Circuit asserts, automatically bringing questions from “within the law.” It sounds like it’s meant to remove the.” [the President’s] lawful discretion. ”
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The brief went on to warn that “prosecutions do not need to be legally rigorous to cause headaches for the criminal justice system and former President Biden.”
Former President Donald Trump and Montana NRSC President Steve Daines. (Getty Images)
He also reiterated an example of former President Barack Obama’s potential vulnerability raised by Trump’s lawyers during a circuit court hearing, pointing to “the killing of American citizens by the Obama administration’s drone strikes.”
“The families of the murdered Americans attempted to sue Obama administration officials for civil damages, but the lawsuit was dismissed,” the brief recalls.
But “if they had the D.C. Circuit’s new rules in place, could they have obtained a different result through criminal means?” asked the NRSC and Daines.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the nomination of Xavier Becerra to be Secretary of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP) (Michael Reynolds/Pool, via AP)
The court briefs from Daines and the NRSC are further evidence that the party is not only united in support of the former president, but supports his legal battles.
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NRSC too filed a court brief Supported Trump’s objection to excluding the former president from Colorado’s state ballot. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled earlier this month that Trump should be reinstated to vote, overturning a lower court ruling.
Dozens of Republicans in both the U.S. House and Senate also joined in court briefs supporting Trump on the issue.
