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Donald Trump's attorneys argued his immunity claim before an appeals court panel — and a CNN legal analyst predicted certain defeat.

The former president's attorney Dean John Sauer claimed in court Tuesday that former chief executives could be criminally prosecuted only if they had been impeached and convicted by Congress, but CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said the three-judge panel appeared deeply skeptical of that argument.

Donald Trump is making some questionable arguments in his appeal to the Supreme Court to keep on state ballots after he was booted off Colorado's, Vice News reported.

Trump's legal team claims that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was not an insurrection. It also claims that, even if it was, he did not participate and is therefore not liable for trial.

Trump lawyer Dean John Sauer argued Tuesday that the only way his client could be criminally prosecuted for any crime he committed while president would be if he were first convicted in the United States Senate.

While that interpretation of the United States Constitution was seen as extreme by many legal experts, Sauer made it even more so during the end of the appeals court hearing into Trump's claim of immunity by hedging on whether Trump would be liable for prosecution even if two-thirds of the United States Senate had found him guilty of inciting an insurrection.

A former House January 6 Committee lawyer warned Donald Trump's legal team not to perform for their client just minutes before they walked into an appeals court Tuesday.

Temidayo Aganga-Williams was talking on CNN as former President Donald Trump arrived at the D.C. court to hearing arguments in his claim that he is presidentially immune from prosecution in the federal election conspiracy case brought by special counsel Jack Smith — an argument many experts believe he has no chance of winning, but that could be useful to him as a stall tactic to push back his trial date.

Donald Trump's lawyers attempted to persuade an appeals court panel that a former president could commit almost any action and evade prosecution, but legal experts weren't impressed by their arguments.

Trump attorney Dean John Sauer argued that special counsel Jack Smith had based his prosecution on "official acts" the former president undertook while in office, but legal experts said hypothetical scenarios sketched by justice Florence Pan about a chief executive ordering the assassination of a political rival showed deep skepticism from the three-judge panel on those immunity claims.

Federal appeals Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson grilled attorney John Sauer as he argued that former President Donald Trump was entitled to absolute immunity from indictment for election subversion.

During Tuesday oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Henderson became frustrated with Sauer.

Prosecuting Donald Trump is going to open a “Pandora’s box” of pain on the country, his lawyer told appeals court judges Tuesday.

"To authorize the prosecution of a president for its official acts would open a Pandora's box from which this nation may never recover," D. John Sauer said at the start of the hearing in Washington, D.C., which is considering the former president’s claims that he should be immune for criminal charges.

Many of Donald Trump's critics, from Never Trump conservative Charlie Sykes to "Real Time" host Bill Maher, have been warning that the 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner could provoke a constitutional crisis.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama, in a recent interview for the podcast "On Purpose," told host Jay Shetty that she is "terrified about what could possibly happen" in this year's election and warned, "We cannot take this democracy for granted."

Due to his multiple legal headaches, Donald Trump doesn't have any rallies scheduled in Iowa as the state's caucuses approach. One way he's making up for the gap is by employing some conservative allies to do his campaigning for him, The New York Times reported.

"To start its efforts in January, the campaign last week held events with Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Eric Trump, one of Mr. Trump’s sons," The Times' report stated.

Donald Trump’s new argument that he should be immune from being criminally tried in Jack Smith’s election interference case because he’s already been acquitted in an impeachment hearing is a “stone cold loser,” an expert said Tuesday.

CNN’s legal analyst Elie Honig was talking as Trump arrived in a Washington, D.C. appeals court to hear his lawyers argue that he should have political immunity in the case because he was acting his official capacity as president.

Donald Trump will appear in court on Tuesday and watch as his lawyers make the case that he has a kind of special presidential immunity that protects him against prosecutions for purportedly official acts he took as president.

Andrew Weissmann, a former senior prosecutor to Robert Mueller, explained that the Justice Department would be arguing that there is no doctrine of presidential immunity for presidents when it comes to a criminal case, regardless of what is happening in a civil capacity.

Donald Trump is putting a bullseye on President Joe Biden.

The former president posted a nearly six-minute video late Monday night to air grievances over his beef with Biden and directly warned the president he has a window of time to find wrongdoing.