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Special counsel Jack Smith notified U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon that former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, "have yet" to produce any discovery materials.

In a three-page filing on Tuesday, Smith noted that the special counsel's office had fulfilled its obligations to turn over information about the classified documents case against Trump.

James Pearce, an attorney working on special counsel Jack Smith's team, seemed taken aback during an appeals court hearing on Tuesday after a lawyer representing former President Donald Trump argued that he could get away with ordering the assassination of his political rivals so long as the United States Senate didn't convict him for it.

"What kind of world are we living in if, as I understood my friend on the other side to say here, a president orders his SEAL team to assassinate a political rival and resigns, for example, before an impeachment, that's not a criminal act," Pearce said. "The president sells a pardon, resigns, or is not impeached, not a crime. I think that is extraordinarily frightening future."

Eric Trump sent out a fundraising appeal as his father's attorneys tried to persuade an appeals court to make him immune from prosecution.

The former president's son begged supporters for campaign cash as attorney Dean John Sauer told an apparently skeptical three-judge panel that Trump cannot be prosecuted for attempting to subvert the 2020 election because he had not been impeached and convicted in the Senate.

Donald Trump lawyer John Lauro echoed his client on Tuesday by warning that President Joe Biden could face prosecution simply because his administration's Department of Justice brought charges against the former president.

While talking with reporters after an appeals court hearing in which Trump's legal team argued their client had absolute immunity from criminal prosecutions, Lauro made the case that hitting Trump with criminal charges would spark a cycle of recriminations in American politics.

Former President Donald Trump's big mouth is coming back to bite him, a legal analyst said Tuesday.

Former Manhattan prosecutor Karen Agnifilo took to CNN Tuesday to discuss a moment in Trump’s presidential immunity hearing when his trial lawyers were confronted with past statements made in his impeachment hearings in January 2021.

Right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon on Tuesday predicted that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis would "end up in jail" over her love life.

Bannon and pro-Trump attorney Mike Davis discussed a lawsuit claiming Willis had a "romantic relationship" with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

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.