Immunity: Trump asks the Supreme Court to take its time

Above all, don’t rush. This is the central message of A memory Donald Trump sent this Wednesday to the United States Supreme Court in response to the request made by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith for the US Supreme Court to intervene as quickly as possible to resolve the immunity issue raised in the portion of Trump’s trial on post-election conspiracy charges. Smith wants this trial to begin in The scheduled date is March 5.

For his part, Donald Trump claims that he enjoys “absolute immunity” for his actions as president. Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that this was not the case. The former president appealed the decision to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Since the case will eventually end up before the Supreme Court, Jack Smith has asked the court to consider the matter immediately.

But Trump and his lawyers say the immunity issue should be “resolved carefully and deliberately — not at lightning speed.” They therefore urge judges not to “rashly rush to decide matters.” The goal is clear: delay the trial as long as possible, ideally until 2025.

Trump and his colleagues also accuse Smith of wanting to resolve the immunity issue quickly for partisan reasons.

“He confuses the ‘public interest’ with an overt partisan interest in ensuring that President Trump faces a month-long criminal trial at the height of a presidential campaign in which he is the leading candidate and the only serious opponent of the current administration,” the article said. Brief. “The combination of the nearly three-year wait to bring this case and the Special Prosecutor’s current request for an extraordinary expedition, supported by the vaguest of justifications, creates a compelling inference of partisan motives.”

In short, the United States Supreme Court will be asked to play a major role in the 2024 presidential election. It will have to decide two questions directly relating to Donald Trump, namely his immunity and eligibility, and a third relating to the application of the law to people accused or convicted of obstruction of official proceedings.

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