Former President Trump’s legal team says special counsel Jack Smith is “putting a logical twist” in his latest court filing before taking the federal election destruction case to the Supreme Court.
In their latest 15-page filing on Thursday, Trump’s lawyers said the special counsel had urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to reject Trump’s bid to delay the trial. , claimed Mr. Smith was making “politically motivated inferences.”
“The special counsel’s latest filing makes a convincing case for a political motive, a motive to influence the 2024 presidential election by putting the leading Republican candidates on trial by November 5, 2024. raises certain inferences,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.
The application comes amid a broader battle to further delay his March 4 trial, which is pending after he appeals to dismiss his immunity claim.
Trump’s lawyers asked the court to throw out the case entirely, arguing that as a former president, Trump has immunity from criminal prosecution. Two courts have now rejected these claims.
Mr. Smith opposed Mr. Trump, who asked the Supreme Court to delay the trial by freezing the ruling that rejected his immunity claim.
Smith told the judges Wednesday. filing It asked that the trial, which includes “federal criminal charges against the former president for alleged criminal acts of attempting to overturn the results of a presidential election, including the exercise of public authority,” be allowed to proceed.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump’s lawyers argued that Mr. Smith’s attempt to proceed with the trial would run into a “logical” conundrum.
“By pursuing partisan motives, the special counsel has twisted his logic,” Trump’s lawyers said in a statement. I beg this court not to decide the case,” he wrote.
The former president’s appeal could set the stage for a landmark case at the Supreme Court that could determine the extent of presidential immunity.
Earlier this month, an appeals court upheld a lower court ruling, and a three-judge panel ruled that President Trump, as a former commander in chief, is not immune from criminal prosecution, and that the election against these people is not immune. It dashed his goal of dismissing a federal lawsuit over interference. base.
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