Mo Brooks seeks immunity for Jan. 6 speech, says he was not campaigning

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Representative Mo Brooks asked a federal judge on Wednesday to grant him immunity from a civil lawsuit alleging a speech he delivered to then-President Donald Trump's supporters on Jan. 6 helped incite the attack on the Capitol.

In a series of court filings, Brooks addressed a decision by the Justice Department issued last week which determined it could not defend the Alabama congressman because he was not acting within his scope of employment as a member of Congress when he spoke at the rally.

Brooks is a co-defendant with Trump and several others in a lawsuit brought by Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell in the U.S District Court for the District of Columbia, before Judge Amit Mehta.

After the Jan. 6 rally, where Trump and others repeated the false claim that the election was marred by widespread fraud, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-brooks-seeks-immunity-jan-164412248.html

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1. What did the q-right's hero, Michael Flynn, say about people seeking immunity?

Mike Flynn has reportedly sought immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony about the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia, but past comments show that Donald Trump’s former national security adviser once associated immunity with guilt.

“I mean, five people around her have had, have been given immunity to include her chief of staff,” Flynn told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in a September 2016 interview, referring to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email controversy. “When you are given immunity, that means you have probably committed a crime.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/30/flashback-mike-flynn-said-immunity-equals-guilt.html

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2. A person who represents himself has a fool for a client

Mo is a bad lawyer. This is really bad work

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