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The federal court set to hear Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against former President Donald Trump has told the lawyers to be prepared to answer questions on the constitutionality of Smith’s appointment. Ed Meese, former attorney general under President Reagan, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case against Trump on Tuesday, arguing that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of Smith — a private citizen — is in violation of the Appointments Clause of the Constitution "Not properly clothed in the authority of the federal government, Smith is a modern example of the naked emperor. Illegally appointed, he has no more...

Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Wednesday morning seeking to prevent former President Donald Trump from claiming in his federal case that he was targeted for political prosecution by President Joe Biden as a form of “election interference.” Donald Trump, unironically, stands accused of “election interference” in connection to his legal and constitutionally protected election challenges over the 2020 election. Smith said in his motion that Trump should be barred from “introducing evidence, making arguments, or framing questions to advance a theory of selective or vindictive prosecution.” Judge Chutkan, an anti-Trump jurist who has consistently sided with the state’s...

The Supreme Court of the United States will not immediately hear former President Donald Trump’s case for presidential immunity, siding with Trump, who argued the court should reject Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a speedy review and decision. The high court on Friday declined Smith’s request for a quick review, meaning that the case will go through the normal process in the appeals court and likely make its way to the SCOTUS from there. This is a significant victory for Trump and a major setback for Smith, who is racing against the clock to put Trump on trial in...

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley predicted special counsel Jack Smith may “never see a March trial” Friday after the Supreme Court denied Smith’s plea to hear the case. The Supreme Court rejected Smith’s request to provide expedited review of an appeal of a district court ruling by judge Tanya Chutkan that rejected a motion by Trump’s attorneys to dismiss the charges. “The impact of this decision on Smith is going to be anything but good,” Turley told “America Reports” co-host John Roberts and guest co-host Jacqui Heinrich. “The reason he was so insistent on leapfrogging the D.C. Circuit...

The US Supreme Court has declined, for now, to decide whether former president Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election. Mr Trump's efforts to delay his trial appears successful, as the case must now work through the appeals process. Special counsel Jack Smith had asked the court to take up the case in an expedited manner. SNIP The court did not explain its decision, instead issuing an unsigned order saying that Mr Smith's petition "is denied".

The US Supreme Court on Friday denied Jack Smith’s request for a ruling on Trump’s immunity argument. Jack Smith last Monday asked the US Supreme Court to weigh in on Trump’s immunity claims. President Trump on Wednesday urged the US Supreme Court to reject Jack Smith’s request to expedite the ruling on his immunity argument. Trump’s lawyers argued that Trump is immune from federal prosecution for alleged ‘crimes’ committed while he served as US President.

CNN — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request by special counsel Jack Smith to fast-track arguments on whether Donald Trump has any immunity from federal prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office – a move that will likely delay his trial. The court did not explain its reasoning and there were no noted dissents.

Former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese has filed a Supreme Court brief arguing that Special Counsel Jack Smith has no legal authority to prosecute President Donald Trump. Meese, who served under President Ronald Reagan, argues that Smith’s appointment was illegal. According to Meese, Democrat President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland was not authorized by law to appoint a private citizen, like Smith, with the sweeping prosecutorial power he has been given. As such, Smith’s current petition for the Supreme Court to fast-track Trump’s January 6 immunity claims should be ignored. The amicus brief from Meese runs over 30 pages...

Sports commentator Stephen A Smith went nuclear on Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday, calling the Gov. a “racist” for his “inhumane” new rules allowing state and local police to arrest illegal aliens in the Lone Star State. Abbott signed SB4 into law on Monday, making illegal entry into Texas a crime and giving police the authority to arrest those who break that new law. “The goal of these laws is to make sure that when they see somebody crossing over the border, as the National Guard see, as the Texas Department of Public Safety see, they know they’re...

Oh my, how times change. That Jack Smith is desperate to convict Donald Trump before he can be nominated is the worst kept secret in the world at the moment. Special Counsel Jack Smith is working overtime to imprison former U.S. President Donald Trump prior to the 2024 presidential election, admits CNN legal expert Elie Honig. Smith is working to fast-track numerous criminal indictments against Trump with the ultimate goal of a conviction that could disrupt the former President’s campaign endeavours, in a flagrant election interference attempt by the Biden regime. Smith's procedural efforts are way out of the norm...

The Supreme Court is weighing whether to fast-track arguments about presidential immunity relating to the indictment of former president Donald Trump over his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Special counsel Jack Smith has argued that Trump’s presidential immunity does not extend to the criminal justice system; Trump’s legal team, in a lower-court filing, has argued that it does. And both sides are citing Richard M. Nixon. Smith and Trump’s lawyers have both referred to Supreme Court rulings concerning the 37th president to bolster their arguments. But they’re citing two very different cases with very different outcomes. The special...

United States of American v. Donald J. Trump Criminal No. 23-cr-257 (TSC) Government's Summary of Anticipated Expert Testimony The Government has provided its Notice of Expert Witnesses to the defendant. Pursuant to the Pretrial Order, ECF No. 39 ¶ 7, the Government now submits to the Court “a brief description of each [expert] witness’ area of expertise and expected testimony.” As explained below, the Government may call up to three expert witnesses to testify in this case. Expert 1 Expert 1 has knowledge, skill, experience, training, and education beyond the ordinary lay person regarding the interpretation and visual representation of...

Kate Smith first performed “God Bless America” the day before Veteran’s Day in 1938. She was a patriotic American, who wanted to encourage fellow citizens as they suffered through a terrible depression and saw a world being torn apart by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. She wanted to reach Americans with the faith she felt for the future of the nation.As a leading performer in a radio market reaching nearly every household in the country, her way would be through song. So, Kate asked Irving Berlin to write a song that would cause citizens to embrace a positive perception of...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is responsible for the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 because they were the “culmination” of his conspiracies to overturn the 2020 presidential election, special counsel Jack Smith’s office says in a new filing in the former president's federal election interference case. The filing comes in response to Trump's motion to strike “inflammatory” references to the violence of Jan. 6 from his criminal indictment on four charges related to his alleged efforts to interfere with the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Senior assistant special counsel Molly Gaston called Trump's motion a "meritless effort"...

Special Counsel Jack Smith is still hiding the names of his prosecutors in violation of federal Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) law.The Jack Smith Special Counsel refuses to release the names of his team members. Why is that? We know they are most certainly ALL Democrats. We know they lack integrity and honor.

Gun manufacturing giant Smith & Wesson hosted a grand opening of its $125 million new Tennessee headquarters after moving from its longtime home in Massachusetts. The company built a new 650,000-square feet office in Maryville as part of a relocation plan announced in 2021. The gunmaker had been located in Springfield, Massachusetts, since the mid-19th century, but hoped to move to a more gun-friendly state. 'From where I stand, the next 170 years of Smith & Wesson are looking pretty good. It is something special here in Tennessee,' President and CEO Mark Smith said at Saturday's grand opening. Smith &...

Attorney General Merrick Garland insists he doesn't know "if or how many federal agents or paid informants may have participated in the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol. Information like that is not considered necessary for me to know." FBI Director Christopher Wray says "the decisions on how many agents and paid informants might be employed and what their specific duties might be are on a 'need to know basis.' I can see no reason why Congressman Jordan (R-Ohio) or any of his colleagues would have a need to know. On a matter of national security like this it...

Special counsel Jack Smith, who cut his teeth prosecuting war crimes at The Hague, has tapped his deputy from those prosecutions to help him in the investigations of former President Donald Trump, reported POLITICO on Friday. "Alex Whiting worked alongside Smith for three years, helping prosecute crimes against humanity that occurred in Kosovo in the late 1990s," reported Kyle Cheney. "The Yale-educated attorney also worked as a prosecutor with the International Criminal Court from 2010 to 2013. He has taught law classes at Harvard since 2007 as well, hired as an assistant professor by then-Dean Elena Kagan — now a...

Former Trump administration official Kash Patel filed a lawsuit last week over the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI’s “politically motivated” effort to obtain a subpoena for his personal email account data in 2017. Patel, who at the time was the investigator leading the House Intelligence Committee’s probe into FBI and DOJ conduct in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, alleges the DOJ violated separation of powers and his Fourth Amendment rights when it sought a subpoena of his personal email account in 2017. The lawsuit names seven individuals who were officials at the time, including FBI Director Chris Wray and...

ASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors in the case charging Donald Trump with scheming to overturn the 2020 presidential election are seeking an order that would restrict the former president from “inflammatory” and “intimidating” comments about witnesses, lawyers and the judge. Special counsel Jack Smith's team said in a motion filed Friday that such a “narrow, well-defined” order was necessary to preserve the integrity of the case and to avoid prejudicing potential jurors. “Since the grand jury returned an indictment in this case, the defendant has repeatedly and widely disseminated public statements attacking the citizens of the District of Columbia, the...