In a court filing on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump accused prosecutors of trying to rush his trial after actions by special counsel Jack Smith’s office in three courts.
The case was brought in a federal district court in Washington, which President Trump has since brought into the appeals court. In a surprise move on Monday, Mr. Smith preempted the defense team by asking the U.S. Supreme Court for an immediate review on President Trump’s presidential immunity defense.
That petition came just hours after the special counsel tried to “complicate” President Trump’s appeal, defense attorneys argued in the new reply, by ignoring and arguing against “the Supreme Court’s binding precedent and urges the Court to permit continued pretrial proceedings on a parallel track.”…
