'The public has been poisoned': Trump tries one more time to stop Jack Smith's Jan. 6 evidence from coming out ahead of
Source: Law & Crime
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked the judge in his Jan. 6 prosecution to keep a stay in place for a month so that the defense and special counsel Jack Smith can file their “immunity appendices” at the same time — after the 2024 election has come and gone.
On Oct. 10, several days after Smith’s immunity brief went public, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that the prosecution’s redacted appendix should also go public since Trump’s “‘concern with the political consequences of these proceedings’ is not a cognizable legal prejudice.” At the same time, the judge stayed her order and gave Trump’s team seven days to “evaluate litigation options.”
The defense argued that a stay extension would promote “public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings and a court’s duty to remain apolitical,” similar to an argument that was made in favor of pushing back sentencing in Trump’s hush-money case.
Obama administration and Jan. 6 Committee attorney Eric Columbus, for one, saw the filing as a “prelude” to Trump lawyers asking the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved — again.
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