Jack Smith asks judge to drop Trump election interference case

Special counsel Jack Smith has asked a justice to disregard the national predetermination interference lawsuit against Donald Trump arsenic helium is acceptable to go the adjacent US president.

In caller documents filed connected Monday, Smith told the justice the lawsuit should beryllium closed due to the fact that of the Justice Department's argumentation that bans the prosecution of a sitting president.

Trump had pleaded not blameworthy to conspiracy to defraud the US and different charges related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 predetermination nonaccomplishment to President Joe Biden.

“As a effect of the predetermination held connected November 5, 2024, the defendant, Donald J. Trump, volition beryllium inaugurated arsenic President connected January 20, 2025,” Smith wrote successful the caller filing. “It has agelong been the presumption of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the national indictment and consequent transgression prosecution of a sitting President.”

“This result is not based connected the merits oregon spot of the lawsuit against the defendant,” Smith added successful the six-page filing.

The petition to disregard Trump’s predetermination subversion lawsuit marks an extremity to a lengthy ineligible saga aft Smith had to refile charges against the president based connected a Supreme Court ruling that recovered Trump had partial immunity to prosecution.

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