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Some on the far right have taken to social media calling on Ron DeSantis to block Trump from getting extradited to New York if he decides not to surrender on a possible criminal charge, but legal experts tell NBC News there’s little to nothing that the Florida governor could do in that unlikely event — even if he wanted to.

While interstate extradition requests do have to go through governors’ offices, the U.S. Constitution gives them little choice but to comply: “A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.”

New York defense lawyer Ron Kuby, who was involved in a 1991 case seeking to block a person accused of murder from being extradited from New York to Florida, recounted that an appeals court quickly shut the door.

Governors can order reviews into whether the paperwork is in order, which can slow the process down for a finite period of time, but “they have absolutely no authority to stop extradition,” he said.

Attorney Daniel Horwitz, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, agreed. He called the idea that DeSantis could block extradition “inane.”

The scenario is also unlikely because the relationship between DeSantis and Trump appears to be at an all-time low. Asked Monday if he’d play a role in Trump’s possible extradition, DeSantis said he is “not going to be involved in it in any way,” and Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina told NBC News last week that his client plans to surrender if indicted.

The liberal Kuby predicted Trump would want to come to court. “The show will be here. He’ll be the star,” he said.