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The U.S. Supreme Court spent much of Thursday, April 25 listening to opposing oral arguments in Donald Trump’s absolute immunity case. The former president claims that because he enjoyed absolute immunity from criminal prosecution when he was in the White House, Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference indictment is illegitimate and needs to be thrown out. But U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, assigned to Smith’s case, has flatly rejected Trump’s absolute presidential immunity claim — ruling that U.S. presidents do not enjoy a “divine right of kings.” In a scat…

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