‘Shame on Him!’ Fox News Legal Panel Torches Trump Attorney for Waiving Supreme Court Rebuttal

Fox News contributors Leo Terrell and Jonathan Turley torched D. John Sauer, the lawyer who represented Trump in his presidential immunity case at the Supreme Court on Thursday, for passing on the opportunity to rebut the arguments of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team and get in the last word during oral argument on America Reports.

“The one critique I would have against the Trump attorney. You never, never, never, never, never, never, never waive a rebuttal argument,” submitted Terrell during a panel discussion. “And I heard that, when he did that, I was shocked. You always have the last word, he abandoned that last word, shame on him!”

Then Turley was asked to weigh in on the issue by Fox’s Sandra Smith.

“Yeah, I tweeted at the same time, I was quite surprised. I’ve never seen a rebuttal waived, because there was a lot there still on the table,” he agreed. “I thought that the counsel for the special counsel was really struggling at points. And at others, he was able to eke out some good solid ground. That’s your chance, to come in there and to hit hard without any rebuttal coming from the other side. So I was surprised by that.”

Sauer argued on Trump’s behalf that he was immune from criminal prosecution for any acts he committed as president, grappling with hard questions from Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, John Roberts and others at various points.

In one stunning moment, Sauer even submitted that it was possible that the president would be immune from prosecution for ordering the assassination of a political rival.

“It would depend on the hypothetical, what we can see that could well be an official act,” argued Sauer after being presented with such a hypothetical by Sotomayor.

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