Jack Smith slams Trump's 'irrelevant' Jan. 6 discovery demands, anticipates 'frivolous' appeal

Source: Law & Crime

Oct 2nd, 2024, 9:16 am


Special counsel Jack Smith spent more than a dozen pages on Tuesday slamming Donald Trump’s defense for “improper efforts to seek dismissal” of his Jan. 6 prosecution, claiming that a “deficient” filing loaded with discovery requests “irrelevant” to the immunity question before the court could set the stage for a “frivolous interlocutory appeal.”

Two weeks ago, the former president’s lawyers sought discovery on anything from the SolarWinds hack of 2020, to “FISA abuses,” to “security requests and the timing of the National Guard’s deployment on January 6,” and whether government “operatives” were present that day.

At the same time, the defense asserted that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan should “promptly” throw out the prosecution as a consequence of the Supreme Court immunity decision in Trump v. United States and Smith’s “stubborn reliance” on details about Trump’s communications with then Vice President Mike Pence in the superseding indictment.

While the defense has strenuously opposed the the schedule for filing an immunity brief and appendix spanning some 180 pages and containing “sensitive witness statements” ahead of the 2024 election, Smith has responded by defending his office against “false” allegations that he is “motivated by improper political considerations” and by doubling down on his insistence that “public access” makes it appropriate to identify certain witnesses by their “titles and positions,” just like in the indictment:

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