Lawyers for former President Trump are urging a federal appeals court to rule that he cannot be sued for allegedly inciting the 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol because he has total immunity from such lawsuits.
for allegedly inciting the 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol because he has total immunity from such lawsuits.
In questioning the results of the election during the weeks before Jan. 6 and on the day itself, Trump was exercising a president’s ability to use the bully pulpit and was “engaged in an open discussion and debate about the integrity of the 2020 election,” they said.In rejecting the same argument in February, Mehta said the rally speech was “akin to telling an excited mob that corn dealers starve the poor in front of the corn dealer’s home.
House Democrats were the first to sue Trump. They said the Capitol riot was “the intended and foreseeable culmination of a carefully coordinated campaign to interfere with the legal process required to confirm the tally of votes cast in the Electoral College.”
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