{"id":41917,"date":"2019-10-23T12:50:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=41917"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:50:18","slug":"amazing-trumps-lawyer-arguing-that-he-cant-be-investigated-for-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=41917","title":{"rendered":"Amazing: Trump’s lawyer arguing that he can’t be investigated. For anything"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right now, I’m reading the New York Times’ coverage of an argument going on a few sunny miles south of me, in the Second Circuit federal appellate court.<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s about Trump’s taxes and whether the Manhattan District Attorney can obtain them.<\/p>\n

But not to Trump’s lawyers.<\/p>\n

We’ve all read a lot about the bizarre general argument Trump’s administration has propounded that no one has the right to investigate him. Because he’s president. Can’t indict him, can’t investigate, can’t arrest him, can’t do anything to him at all because he’s Mad King — oops, I mean president. He’s president.<\/p>\n

Which is all you need to know before you read this remarkable interaction among the district attorney’s office, Trump’s lawyer and one of the three federal appellate judges before whom this nutso argument is being heard.<\/p>\n

How nutso? Go to it:<\/p>\n

A lawyer for Mr. Trump, William S. Consovoy, said the president\u2019s immunity from criminal prosecution even extended to Mr. Trump\u2019s famous claim that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing political support.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carey Dunne, the general counsel for the district attorney in Manhattan, introduced the Fifth Avenue argument in the hearing, asking, \u201cWould local police be disabled from restraining such a person or from processing such a person?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWould we have to wait for an impeachment proceeding to be initiated?\u201d he added.<\/em><\/p>\n

Later, another of the judges, Denny Chin, posed the hypothetical to Mr. Consovoy. \u201cLocal authorities couldn\u2019t investigate? They couldn\u2019t do anything about it?\u201d he asked. \u201cNothing could be done? That\u2019s your position?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThat is correct. That is correct,\u201d Mr. Consovoy said.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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