WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith urged the Supreme Court on Monday to reject former President Donald Trump's position that he should be granted absolute immunity in the federal election interference case, with prosecutors arguing that criminal law applies to a president. The 66-page filing from Smith and his team laid out a series of arguments taking aim at Trump’s claim that a president is immune from criminal prosecution. Prosecutors argued that there are no presidential powers that...
By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith urged the Supreme Court on Monday to reject Donald Trump’s claims of sweeping immunity and to deny the former president any opportunity to delay a trial on charges that he attempted to subvert the results of the 2020 election. Trump’s position, Smith
By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith urged the Supreme Court on Monday to reject Donald Trump’s claims of sweeping immunity and to deny the former president any opportunity to delay a trial on charges that he attempted to subvert the results of the 2020 election. Trump’s position, Smith
Special Counsel Jack Smith attacked Judge Aileen Cannon in a filing submitted late Tuesday in the Justice Department's case against former President Donald Trump alleging that he mishandled classified material after leaving office.
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The special counsel pursuing federal criminal charges against Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss filed a U.S. Supreme Court brief on Monday urging the justices to reject the former president’s bid for immunity from prosecution on the principle that “no person is above the
Trump appealed lower court’s denial of his request to be shielded from case charging him with attempting to overturn 2020 electionThe special counsel pursuing federal criminal charges against Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss filed a US supreme court brief on Monday urging the justices to reject the former president’s bid for immunity from prosecution on the principle that “no person is above the law”.The case is due to be argued before the justices on 25 April....
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team urged the Supreme Court on Monday night to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Ahead of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court immunity hearing, briefs have poured in from parties who are not directly involved in his case. One of them comes from Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. You might wonder: What business does Meadows have weighing in here? Recall that he’s not charged in the federal election interference case, which is the subject of the upcoming April 25 hearing. But he is charged in the overlapping Georgia state prosecution, where Trump is also charged...
Special Counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump's presidential immunity claims in a court filing on Monday, reiterating his stance that "no person is above the law."Smith is leading the federal prosecution of the former president, who's charged with unlawfully attempting to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The case is set to appear before the Supreme Court on April 25, as Trump presses to have the indictment dismissed on claims that...