The former president’s lawyers are arguing that the Justice Department is criminalizing „core political speech“ protected by the First Amendment and selectively targeting him for prosecution.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump exhorted a judge to dismiss the federal election interference case against him, arguing that the Justice Department is criminalizing „core political speech“ protected by the First Amendment and selectively targeting him for prosecution.
Trump’s legal team said the former president, like millions of other Americans, had every right to cast aspersions on the integrity of the 2020 election — even as senior members of his own administration repeatedly assured Trump that no widespread fraud had influenced the outcome of the race.
„If there is any constant in our democratic system of governance, it is that the marketplace of ideas — not the mandates of government functionaries or partisan prosecutors — determines the scope of public debate,“ wrote defense attorneys John Lauro, Todd Blanche, Gregory Singer and Emil Bove.
The lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to dismiss the unprecedented four-count felony indictment on an array of legal grounds, including the idea that the U.
