Ty Cobb, former White House lawyer under then-President Donald Trump, has signed on to a brief arguing against Trump's claims of presidential immunity. Cobb joins 12 other former prosecutors and constitutional lawyers in support of special counsel Jack Smith's brief to the Supreme Court.
Ty Cobb , former White House lawyer under then-President Donald Trump , signed on to a brief to the Supreme Court arguing against his claims of presidential immunity.
The court is set to hear oral arguments April 25 as part of Trump's bid to dismiss Smith's federal case against him for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. "He repeatedly invokes implied separation-of-powers principles, contending that the imposition of criminal liability on him would unduly impair the Executive Branch. But it is defendant's claimed immunity — not his prosecution — that would undermine those principles," the brief read.
Amongh those joining Cobb on the brief were conservative commentator Bill Kristol, who was chief of staff for Vice President Dan Quayle; Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois under President George W. Bush; frequent Trump critic George Conway III, ex-husband of former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway; and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, a Republican.
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