GOP isn't backing Trump's presidential immunity claim: analysis
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A pivotal argument in former President Donald Trump's defense against federal election interference charges will reach the Supreme Court this month without key support from a conspicuously absent group — his own political party. That's according to analysis of the presidential immunity claim, which Trump is slated to present to the nation's highest court on April 25, from Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio.Desiderio compares court filings in the upcoming hearing — in which Trump will argue he...

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