Comment on Trump’s Lawyers Call for Dismissal of Classified Documents Case, Citing Presidential Immunity

Trump’s Lawyers Call for Dismissal of Classified Documents Case, Citing Presidential Immunity

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team filed multiple motions Thursday night urging a Florida judge to dismiss the criminal case charging him with illegally retaining classified documents, claiming in part that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution — an argument they have already submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in his election interference case. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Lawyers Christopher Kise and Todd Blanche wrote that the charges “turn on his alleged decision to designate records as personal under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and to cause the records to be moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.” Since Trump made this decision while he was still in office, they wrote, it “was an official act, and as such is subject to presidential immunity.” Read More: The Dangerous Whataboutism in the Trump Classified Docs Case Trump faces dozens of felony counts in federal court in Florida accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.

 

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