POLITICS_ Trump Attorneys Ask Judge To Stop Jack Smith From Making Case In ‘Court Of Public Opinion’ Before Election

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Trump Attorneys Ask Judge To Stop Jack Smith From Making Case In ‘Court Of Public Opinion’ Before Election

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Katelynn Richardson
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September 20, 2024 11:13 AM ET


Special counsel Jack Smith should not be allowed to make an important public filing in his election interference case against former president Donald Trump while there are lingering evidence disputes, Trump’s attorneys told the judge Thursday.

His attorneys urged Judge Tanya Chutkan, who set a schedule allowing prosecutors to file the first brief on presidential immunity Sept. 26, to reconsider her decision. Without addressing ongoing evidence issues, Smith’s filing would “amount to an improper motion for summary judgment in the court of public opinion” ahead of the election, they argued.

Trump’s attorneys noted there are “ongoing discovery violations in this case that implicate Presidential immunity and other strong defenses, including the Office’s failure to produce exculpatory evidence concerning the flaws with this prosecution and the Office’s false allegations.” They said prosecutors conducted their evidence review at a time when they “wholly denied the existence of Presidential immunity,” before the Supreme Court’s July 1 decision finding former presidents immune from prosecution for official acts taken in office. (RELATED: Judge Chutkan Acknowledges She Is ‘Risking Reversal’ No Matter How She Rules In Trump Case)

“The Supreme Court’s recent decision established important parameters for the procedural and substantive consideration of this defense that the Office could not possibly have accounted for when the bulk of discovery was collected and produced,” Trump’s attorneys wrote.

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