'Testament to how reckless this SCOTUS has become': Expert responds to new Trump rebuttal
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Legal experts Monday heaped praise on special counsel Jack Smith's Supreme Court rebuttal to former President Donald Trump's presidential immunity claim, but expressed dismay about the jurists who will consider it. Smith filed a 66-page slam ahead of the April 25 hearing when the Supreme Court will consider the future of Trump's federal election interference case. Former federal prosecutor Norm Eisen cheered Smith's effort to knock the former president's argument. "The absolute immunity...

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