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<p>Special counsel <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/jack-smith">Jack Smith</a> warned in a new filing Saturday that ex-President <a href="https://thedailybeast.com/keyword/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>'s bid for immunity could “license Presidents to commit crimes to remain in office.”</p>
<p>The brief lodged in the D.C. Court of Appeals came in response to the ex-president's claims that he is immune to prosecution for his efforts to undo his 2020 defeat because he survived an impeachment proceeding in the Senate, and because his plotting fell within the powers and duties of his office. </p>
<p>If these arguments—which District Court Judge <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-denies-trumps-presidential-immunity-bid-to-dismiss-2020-election-case">Tanya Chutkan</a> rejected earlier this month—won out, a president could commit crimes freely so long as he threw up sufficient hurdles to keep two-thirds of U.S. senators from voting to remove him, Smith said. </p>
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Special counsel Jack Smith warned in a new filing Saturday that ex-President Donald Trump‘s bid for immunity could “license Presidents to commit crimes to remain in office.”
The brief lodged in the D.C. Court of Appeals came in response to the ex-president’s claims that he is immune to prosecution for his efforts to undo his 2020 defeat because he survived an impeachment proceeding in the Senate, and because his plotting fell within the powers and duties of his office.
If these arguments—which District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected earlier this month—won out, a president could commit crimes freely so long as he threw up sufficient hurdles to keep two-thirds of U.S. senators from voting to remove him, Smith said.
