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Law's Jessie Hill and Melvyn Durchslag sign a letter that calls former President Trump's First Amendment defense 'legally frivolous'

MEDIA | February 23, 2021
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Lawyers call Trump's First Amendment defense 'legally frivolous'

The New York Times: Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, and Melvyn Durchslag, professor emeritus of law, were two of the 144 constitutional lawyers around the country who signed a document noting that claims by former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers that his conduct around the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is shielded by the First Amendment are “legally frivolous” and should have done nothing to stop the Senate from convicting him.

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