How strong is Trump's case against the BBC?

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By Sara Merken

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President Trump has sued the BBC for at least $10 billion in damages after the British broadcaster edited a speech to make it look like he encouraged supporters to storm the Capitol.

Jack Queen takes a look at the case.

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A federal appeals court judge who was included on President Trump's short list of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees during his first term says the U.S. Constitution's protections do not extend to immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally.

U.S. Circuit Judge Amul Thapar, whom Trump appointed to the Cincinnati-based 6th Circuit in 2017, laid out his views as he partially dissented from a ruling upholding a federal law banning immigrants unlawfully present in the U.S. from possessing firearms.

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