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 …