Walter Bibikow/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay out of the legal debate over presidential immunity regarding his actions attacking the 2020 election results and reject special counsel Jack Smith s request for expedited consideration of the issue, which could upend one of Smith s cases against Trump.
"The Special Counsel contends that [i]t is of imperative public importance that respondent s claims of immunity be resolved by this Court, " Trump s attorneys wrote in a brief to the high court, urging the justices to allow a federal appeals court to consider the matter first.
"Every jurisdictional and prudential consideration calls for this Court to allow the appeal to proceed first in the D.C. Circuit. Haste makes waste is an old adage. It has survived because it is right so often," the attorneys wrote.
The filing comes in response to Smith s highly unusual petition to the jus
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