The lawyer fighting the National Football League’s four-game suspension of Tom Brady for an alleged conspiracy to deflate footballs faced a barrage of skeptical questions Thursday at a federal appeals court.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit challenged attorney Jeffrey Kessler’s arguments on why it shouldn’t reinstate the suspension imposed on the New England Patriots quarterback by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

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