Special prosecutor Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to allow the process to continue to try Donald Trump for his attempts to alter the result of the 2020 presidential election, which he lost against Joe Biden.
The prosecutor opposes Trump's request that the case be put on hold while he decides whether the former president has immunity from prosecution for alleged crimes committed in the exercise of his office.
The prosecutor has registered a 40-page brief before the Supreme Court with his position against this stoppage.
In the document he states that Trump's "alleged criminal scheme to overturn an election and thwart the peaceful transfer of power to his successor should be the last place to recognize a novel form of absolute immunity from federal criminal law."
Trump has already managed to delay the process and has so far avoided sitting in the dock in the middle of the Republican Party primaries.
Last week he asked that the case remain paralyzed while advancing some of the arguments of his appeal: “Without criminal immunity, the presidency as we know it will cease to exist.”
“Conducting a months-long criminal trial against President Trump in the middle of the election season will radically disrupt President Trump's ability to campaign against President Biden,” said the brief presented by the former president's lawyers in the introduction to their brief. .
“The D.C. Circuit order [denying his immunity and ordering him to stand trial] thus threatens immediate irreparable harm to the First Amendment interests of President Trump and tens of millions of American voters, who "They have the right to hear President Trump's campaign message while they decide how to cast their vote in November," they add.
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