Donald Trump opposes the special counsel’s request for the Supreme Court to decide right now whether he has any immunity from federal prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office, lawyers for the former president told the justices in court papers Wednesday.

Special counsel Jack Smith asked the high court last week to review a lower-court ruling that Trump, as a former president, is not immune from the election subversion criminal case. Smith in his appeal to the justices asked them to take the rare step of reviewing the issue before a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, weighs in.

But Trump, whose legal strategy in the case so far has largely revolved around attempts to delay the proceedings, told the justices that Smith should not be able to leapfrog over the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to resolve the critical issue.

  • balderdash
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    -87 months ago

    You’re just going to take everything I type literally huh. 1) I’m not saying Trump is the president and 2) the court decision is a lose-lose. Glad I could clear that up for you

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      47 months ago

      If you can’t say what you mean, say nothing at all.

      • balderdash
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        -47 months ago

        People being willfully obtuse just to score points in an argument is a bit pathetic. And I mean that.

        • gregorum
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          7 months ago

          repeat that into a mirror, and we may all accomplish something today.

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              7 months ago

              People being willfully obtuse just to score points in an argument is a bit pathetic. And I mean that.

              guess you didn’t really mean this, then…

              if you can’t say what you mean, say nothing at all.