Trump will return to federal court as judges hear arguments on whether he's immune from prosecution

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50% : Donald Trump is set to return for the first time in months to the federal courthouse in Washington as an appeals court hears arguments Tuesday on whether the former president is immune from prosecution on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
50% : Donald Trump is set to return for the first time in months to the federal courthouse in Washington as an appeals court hears arguments Tuesday on whether the former president is immune from prosecution on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
43% : Underscoring the importance to both sides, Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential primary front-runner, intends to attend Tuesday's arguments even though the Iowa caucuses are just one week away and despite the fact that there's no requirement that defendants appear in person for such proceedings.
43% : Underscoring the importance to both sides, Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential primary front-runner, intends to attend Tuesday's arguments even though the Iowa caucuses are just one week away and despite the fact that there's no requirement that defendants appear in person for such proceedings.
26% : The outcome of the arguments carries enormous ramifications both for the landmark criminal case against Trump and for the broader, and legally untested, question of whether an ex-president can be prosecuted for acts committed in the White House.
26% : The outcome of the arguments carries enormous ramifications both for the landmark criminal case against Trump and for the broader, and legally untested, question of whether an ex-president can be prosecuted for acts committed in the White House.
25% : Smith's team has said there's no bar against prosecutors charging someone who's been impeached and acquitted in the Congress, and note their charges are not identical to the ones that Trump faced in his impeachment proceedings.___Richer reported from Boston.
25% : Smith's team has said there's no bar against prosecutors charging someone who's been impeached and acquitted in the Congress, and note their charges are not identical to the ones that Trump faced in his impeachment proceedings.
22% : But because no former president before Trump has ever been indicted, courts have never before addressed whether that protection extends to criminal prosecution.
22% : But because no former president before Trump has ever been indicted, courts have never before addressed whether that protection extends to criminal prosecution.
16% : They filed a similar motion on Monday in another criminal case against Trump in Georgia.
16% : They filed a similar motion on Monday in another criminal case against Trump in Georgia.
11% : Smith's team has said presidents are not entitled to absolute immunity and that, in any event, the acts Trump is alleged in the indictment to have taken -- including scheming to enlist fake electors in battleground states won by Biden and pressing his vice president, Mike Pence, to reject the counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021 -- fall far outside a president's official job duties.
11% : Smith's team has said presidents are not entitled to absolute immunity and that, in any event, the acts Trump is alleged in the indictment to have taken -- including scheming to enlist fake electors in battleground states won by Biden and pressing his vice president, Mike Pence, to reject the counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021 -- fall far outside a president's official job duties.

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