Posted on 02/15/2024 11:35:08 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
Telling the Supreme Court that the crimes with which former President Donald Trump has been charged “strike at the heart of our democracy” and that there is a “national interest in seeing” those charges “resolved promptly,” Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the justices on Wednesday evening to clear the way for Trump to be tried on charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Smith’s filing came just two days after Trump asked the court to temporarily block a decision by a federal appeals court rejecting his claim of immunity, and six days before the deadline that the court had set for Smith to respond to Trump’s request.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan had originally set a Mar. 4 trial date for Trump’s case. In early December, she denied Trump’s motion to dismiss the charges against him on the ground that he is immune from prosecution for conduct that was part of his official responsibilities as president.
At that point, Smith went to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to weigh in on the immunity question quickly, without waiting for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule on Trump’s appeal.
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did he say pretty please or does he have a legal standing?
Ed Meese effectively says 'no'.
Ed Meese effectively says ‘no’.
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Edwin Meese III, after attaching his name to the ‘infamous’ National Review February 15, 2016 edition titled “Against Trump”- The Editors.
Ed seems to be coming around....good for him....I liked him a lot during the Reagan Presidency.
did he say pretty please or does he have a legal standing?
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Smitty is a “whatever I can get away with” prosecutor.
In other words, a ‘lowlife’ that does his job......getting convictions.......regardless of the truth.
Jack doesn’t care about truth.....just getting his enemies.
“Jack doesn’t care about truth.....just getting his enemies.”
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“The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters.”
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