With all that President Trump has to juggle and the corruption he has to fight against, who can blame him for urging the Supreme Court to push back the election trial?
But that’s not the reason.
It’s simply because these justices will hear a different case shortly that could affect two of cases.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to deny his request.
What a surprise.
Trump Urges Supreme Court to Pause Election Trial While He Appeals Immunity
Trump’s legal team says there are overwhelming reasons why the case should not go to trial ‘in three months or less.’https://t.co/JCIzSQYRPy— MAGA WARRIORS (@maga_warriors) February 17, 2024
USA Today reports:
President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Thursday lashed out at special counsel Jack Smith after he opposed Trump’s request that the Supreme Court delay a trial into whether he tried to steal the 2020 election.
ADVERTISEMENTIn Trump’s final brief before the Supreme Court will consider that delay, his lawyers told the court Smith has created “the appearance of partisanship.”
“As before, there is no mystery about the Special Counsel’s motivation,” they wrote. “Commentators across the political spectrum point to the obvious −the Special Counsel seeks to bring President Trump to trial and to secure a conviction before the November election in which President Trump is the leading candidate against President Biden.”
That goes against the Justice Department’s longstanding prohibition against prosecutors timing their actions to influence an election, the lawyers said. While Trump has long alleged that the four sets of criminal trials he faces are simply a roadblock for his reelection campaign, there is no evidence federal or state officials are targeting the former president’s White House bid.
Trump wants the Supreme Court to keep his trial on hold while he appeals a lower court’s ruling that found he’s not immune from prosecution. Unless the court limits the amount of time Trump has to file his appeals, the process is unlikely to be completed in time for a trial before the November election.
Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, has sought to delay his four federal and state criminal cases until after the election. If voters return Trump to the White House while the trail is still pending, he could ask the Justice Department to dismiss pending federal cases.
BREAKING: 22 state attorneys general have joined an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to accept former President Donald Trump’s appeal of a decision rejecting his presidential immunity claims in Washington.
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) February 17, 2024
Reuters adds:
Lawyers for Donald Trump on Thursday told the U.S. Supreme Court that the former president’s criminal trial on charges of plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss should be delayed because the justices will hear a separate case in the coming months that could affect two of the counts against him.
In a new filing, the lawyers urged the Supreme Court to slow down the trial proceedings in part because the justices soon will weigh whether a defendant named Joseph Fischer who was involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack can be charged with obstructing an official proceeding. Trump has been charged with obstructing an official proceeding and conspiring to do so.
Following this filing, the court could act at any time on Trump’s bid – filed on Monday – to freeze a judicial decision rejecting his claim in this case of immunity from prosecution.
ADVERTISEMENT“It makes no sense to conduct a complex criminal trial while a case is pending in this court that might invalidate half the charges in the indictment,” the lawyers wrote in a brief, referring to the four criminal counts brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith in the case.
Thursday’s filing came in response to one by Smith on Wednesday that urged the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s bid to further delay trial proceedings as he presses his claim of presidential immunity. If the justices do not immediately reject Trump’s request, Smith asked that they take up the case and decide the immunity question on a fast-track basis.
Trump, the first former president to be criminally prosecuted, is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination to challenge President Joe Biden, a Democrat who defeated him in 2020, in the Nov. 5 U.S. election.
In a bid to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s 2020 election victory over Trump, his supporters attacked police, broke through barricades and swarmed the Capitol. Trump gave an incendiary speech to supporters beforehand, repeating his false claims of widespread voting fraud and telling them to go to the Capitol and “fight like hell.” He then for hours rebuffed requests that he urge the mob to stop.
And poor Jack Smith doesn’t look like he’ll get his way.
Jack Smith Tears pic.twitter.com/nFJUFtj8c6
— playteaux (@playteaux) February 16, 2024
It means that Smith cannot expedite the trial, allowing Trump to campaign and possibly win before it goes to actual trial. If that happens, it’s more likely to get his cases appealed and/or dismissed.
— playteaux (@playteaux) February 16, 2024
It’s truly amazing to see what lengths the Democrats will go to stop President Trump.
Even more amazing is watching how Trump handles it all and continually triumphs over every attack!
Watching the Democrats trying to manipuate laws and connive their way to take out Trump is like watching the opponent in a Rocky movie train in a gym and take steroids.
No matter what that opponent does, the movie is called ROCKY, so you know who’s going to win.
And we’re all watching TRUMP: The Movie in real time.
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