Special counsel urges supreme court to reject Trump’s bid to delay election trial
by Joanna Walters in New York and agency from US news | The Guardian on (#6JMVX)
Jack Smith says the nation has a compelling interest in seeing the charges brought to trial' as ex-president presses immunity claim
The special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump on federal charges involving the former president's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss has urged the US supreme court to reject Trump's bid to further delay trial proceedings as he presses his claim of immunity.
Jack Smith's filing to the justices responded to a request by Trump's lawyers on Monday to put on hold a decision by a three-judge panel of the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit rejecting the claim of presidential immunity from prosecution.
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