Posted on 01/04/2024 12:04:40 PM PST by thegagline
Donald Trump’s legal team demanded Thursday that special counsel Jack Smith’s office be held in contempt for allegedly flouting a DC judge’s stay of further proceedings in the 2020 election subversion case against the former president. *** “President Trump has filed a powerhouse motion to hold Crooked Joe Biden’s henchman, Deranged Jack Smith, in contempt of Court for repeatedly violating the stay order in the Washington DC J6 Witch Hunt,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Rather than respect the rule of law, Jack Smith unilaterally decided to disobey the stay order and continue with his harassing litigation,” Cheung went on. “No prosecutor is above the law.”
The motion specifically calls on the court to “show cause” why prosecutors haven’t been held in contempt or why they shouldn’t face “monetary sanctions.”
Last month, Chutkan ruled that “any further proceedings that would move this case towards trial or impose additional burdens of litigation on defendant” would be halted while the question of whether Trump enjoys immunity from the charges against him is decided.
Chutkan had sided with Smith and rejected Trump’s argument that he was carrying out his official duties in insisting that widespread voter fraud had robbed him of a second term.
In response, Trump’s team challenged that decision to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, pushing both the immunity argument and a second argument that Trump’s impeachment by the House of Representatives on a charge of inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, renders Smith’s prosecution double jeopardy. ***
Lauro noted that Smith’s office furnished roughly 4,000 pages of “additional discovery” on Dec. 17, 2023, and then put out an exhibit list the next day. ***
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Unfortunately, I doubt that the leftist judge will issue appropriate sanctions.
Chutkan is a Marxist agent, and will laugh it off. If God still stand with this nation, she will be wrecked on the appelate level later.
The best defense is a good offense
He needs gag order on Smith.
“No prosecutor is above the law.”
Unless they are democrats they call it democracy.
Like inquisitions being called a trial.
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