BART JANSEN: The Justice Department filed an argument
today in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals
saying that presidents don't deserve absolute immunity
from civil lawsuits for actions that they
took while they were in office.
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Trump has argued in federal court
that he should be immune from all the lawsuits.
They shouldn't be able to bring them at all.
The Justice Department took no position on the lawsuits
that were actually filed.
They're not saying the lawsuits were right.
They're not trying to render a verdict in the case yet.
But they're saying in the case of inciting
violence, that would be outside a president's official duties.
And that would open the president
to potential lawsuits.
We don't know how the Circuit Court panel
is going to decide the case.
They also don't set deadlines for how
soon they will decide the case.
These cases were filed two years ago already.
And so everybody's waiting for an answer.
The circuit panel will decide whether to take
the Justice Department's advice, maybe set their own rules.
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