The U.S. Department of Justice has stated that it doesn’t back former President Donald Trump’s argument that he has absolute immunity from civil lawsuits in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach.
In a court filing submitted (pdf) on March 2 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, DOJ lawyers wrote that Trump’s lawyers “advance only a single, categorical argument: A President is always immune from any civil suits based on his ’speech on matters of public concern' ... even if that speech also constitutes incitement to imminent private violence.”
