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It was incredibly cool to report from the US Supreme Court last week, where it held a historic hearing on whether former President Donald Trump should be immune from criminal prosecution. At the hearing, there was an interesting exchange between Trump's lawyer John Sauer and Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch. The purported subject was Trump's potential immunity in his Washington, DC-based election interference case. But Trump is also a criminal defendant in Georgia, also for trying to overturn the 2020 election results. In the Fulton County case, he's a co-defendant along with his former Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows and more than a dozen other Republican allies. Meadows tried to piggyback on the Supreme Court case, asking the justices to recognize immunity for *subordinates* of the president — and also for state-level cases. Unfortunately for him, Gorsuch wasn't buying his "just following orders" defense. Read on: https://lnkd.in/ec8dj2RE #SupremeCourt #Law #DonaldTrump #Constitution #CriminalLaw #Legal