Posted on 12/27/2023 9:02:03 AM PST by cotton1706
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith asked a judge on Wednesday to bar Donald Trump's lawyers from injecting politics into the former president's trial on charges that he schemed to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Smith's office told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in a 20-page filing that Trump's lawyers should be prevented from “raising irrelevant political issues or arguments in front of the jury,” including that the prosecution against him is vindictive and selective or was coordinated by President Joe Biden.
“In addition to being wrong, these allegations are irrelevant to the jury’s determination of the defendant’s guilt or innocence, would be prejudicial if presented to the jury, and must be excluded,” prosecutors wrote.
The motion to preclude Trump from introducing broad categories of arguments is a way for prosecutors to try to set parameters on what information they believe the jury should, or should not, hear when the case reaches trial. It was filed as the case is effectively on hold during an appeal of the former president's claims that he is immune from prosecution for acts taken while in the White House.
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No interfering in the election while we’re interfering in the election!!
Yahoo news -a rancid, putrid pile of trash.
Aren’t these proceedings officially stayed while the question of immunity proceeds through the appellate process?
If that’s the case, why is this asshat making additional filings when the process is frozen.
It is fun to watch the oh-so political Jack-off Smith request no politics, while his entire lawfare-endeavor is political.
Yahoo screwz is as rabidly partisan as PMSNBC.
They also seek to make Trump stop making *boing boing* noises every time the prosecution or judge walk into the kangaroo courtroom.
Deport Chutkan, prosecute “Smith”
The Jamaican nutcase Chitkan and her Nazi persecutors (sp?) expect the President to sit there and let the Nazi bitches frame him, abuse him and then lock him up. It’s time for AMERICANS to take action on this liberal Nazi fustercluck.
>> Yahoo news -a rancid, putrid pile of trash.
And the same can be said of Jack Smith and Tanya Chutkan.
“The Jamaican nutcase Chitkan and her Nazi persecutors (sp?) expect the President to sit there and let the Nazi bitches frame him, abuse him and then lock him up.”
That’s because their previous enemies (they didn’t view them as opponents), the Bushes, etc. just wilted and went away and then dutifully voted for Democrats.
With Trump they’re on their 867th kitchen sink. AND HE’S STILL STANDING.
No Free Speech for Trump. Rigged election interference by Jack Thug Smith.
It was filed as the case is effectively on hold during an appeal of the former president’s claims that he is immune from prosecution for acts taken while in the White House.
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...lol, this case is “oh hold during appeal”...........THIS CASE will be ON HOLD......................throughout eternity!
It will never come to trial because of any one or more of the following facts: 1. there was no scheme 2. Trump will become President 3. sanity will return to the DOJ and a few DOJ lawyers will go to jail 4. the case will be dismissed. 5. A state court cannot prosecute a President 6. Presidents are immune for legal acts they perform and some illegal acts.
In short, the entire case, as The World knows, is entire Democratic Party bullshit.
Yep and Smith was allowed to rigg the schedule to get the worst of the Trump haters in DC.
This reads like a Bee headline.
It violates every concept of justice for a judge or a prosecutor to rule on what arguments the accused is allowed to make in their defense. I don’t care if Trump goes son of Sam and says a dog told him what to do. Any defense you want to make is legal. Anything else is tyranny.
Which election? America interferes in a lot of elections.
This guy is a complete moron! Elections are ONLY about politics.
The headline writer either has a blind spot for irony, or an agenda.
Headline fixed.
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