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WITH AN ASSIST FROM ANTONIN SCALIA, ALVIN BRAGG ARGUES THAT THE PRESIDENT IS NOT
A ‘FEDERAL OFFICER’

The theory is proffered as part of the district attorney’s bid to keep President
Trump in state court.

Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at Washington. November 6, 2014. AP/Kevin Wolf,
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A.R. HOFFMANWednesday, May 31, 202316:28:14 pm

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District Attorney Alvin Bragg is making an unusual argument to a judge of the
Southern District of New York to keep the country’s highest-profile defendant in
state court — namely, that the president of the United States, in whom all the
government’s executive power resides, is not a “federal officer.”  

In a “Memorandum of Law” — the index of cases cited runs to four pages — Mr.



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