Back in September, Donald Trump’s legal team made the bold argument that, according to their interpretation of the Constitution, the president cannot be investigated for any crimes he may have committed, in office or before that time. Attempting to quash a subpoena from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who requested eight years of Trump’s tax returns from his accounting firm to determine if the Trump Organization falsified business records relating to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels’s payments, the president’s lawyers claimed that such a request is unconstitutional because the founding fathers believed sitting presidents should not be subject to the criminal process. “The framers of our Constitution understood that state and local prosecutors would be tempted to criminally investigate the president to advance their own careers and to advance their political agendas,” Trump’s legal team wrote. “And they likewise understood that having to defend against these actions would distract the president from his constitutional duties.”

If you thought that sounded crazy, brace yourselves for the argument Trump’s personal attorney busted out in court on Wednesday, which is that the president has the right to literally shoot someone and go about his day like nothing happened.

Pressed by Judge Denny Chin about the claim of “temporary presidential immunity,” and the hypothetical Trump made while running for office—that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not “lose any voters”—attorney William Consovoy argued that yes, that sort of thing would fall under the concept laid out by the founding fathers.

“Local authorities couldn’t investigate? They couldn’t do anything about it?” Chin asked, adding, “Nothing could be done? That is your position?”

“That is correct,” Consovoy answered, emphasizing that of course such immunity for killing someone in broad daylight would only apply while Trump is in office.

Other things happened during the hearing, but just so it doesn’t get lost in the details, let‘s just stress at this time that the president’s personal lawyer told a federal judge that Donald Trump can shoot random pedestrians and avoid prosecution until moving out of the White House.

Elsewhere during the proceedings, Judge Robert Katzmann asked why Trump is so afraid of turning over his tax records to a grand jury, given that state and federal officials already hold such documents, to which Consovoy argued that there were no assurances that the information would remain private once prosecutors and a grand jury got their hands on them. Carey Dunne, a general counsel from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office who was clearly not having any of this, told the court “there is no such thing as presidential immunity for tax returns” and “they’re making this up.” She added: “[President Trump] may view them as embarrassing or sensitive but tax returns do in fact get subpoenaed all the time in financial investigations,” Dunne said.

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero threw out Trump’s claims that he has immunity from prosecution and investigations, calling the argument “repugnant to the nation’s fundamental structure and constitutional values,” so presumably he’d have a similar view on the whole the president can shoot people argument. In a separate attempt to keep his taxes a secret, a federal appeals court ruled against Trump several weeks ago, refusing to block a House subpoena for such information from his accounting firm. The Justice Department joined the fight against the New York case on October 1, citing “significant constitutional issues.” It’s not clear if Attorney General William Barr agrees that the president can shoot people with temporary immunity but judging by his previous statements, it seems like he might!