Jack Smith Asks Supreme Court to Rule Quickly on Trump's Immunity Claim
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed an unusual request - asking the Supreme Court to swiftly take up the issue of Donald Trump's claim that he can't be prosecuted for the crimes he committed while president. Smith wants to leapfrog the case over the DC federal circuit court of appeals and have the Supreme Court resolve the issue quickly so the case can proceed to trial on schedule by March 4th. (This is assuming the court rejects Trump's claim that he is above the law). Glenn takes on the legal and the common sense implications of Trump's assertion that a president has absolute immunity while in office and can't be prosecuted for his crimes.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion asking the Supreme Court to quickly decide whether |
| 0:20.9 | a president is immune from prosecution for crimes |
| 0:23.8 | committed while in office. |
| 0:25.4 | Glenn says it was an extraordinary motion. |
| 0:29.2 | So friends, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion with the Supreme Court asking the Supreme Court to |
| 0:35.0 | promptly, indeed immediately, take up and decide the issue of whether Donald |
| 0:42.3 | Trump is absolutely immune from being prosecuted for the |
| 0:47.2 | crimes he committed while he was president. |
| 0:50.3 | Jack Smith wants the Supreme Court to take up the issue of whether Donald Trump is above the law. |
| 0:57.0 | Jack Smith wants the Supreme Court to take up the issue of whether Donald Trump is in a very real sense a king. |
| 1:07.0 | Let's start with the new reporting. |
| 1:11.0 | This from the Washington Post headline Supreme Court will consider fast-tracking |
| 1:16.5 | Trump appeal in DC case and that article begins the Supreme Court said Monday, |
| 1:23.0 | it will consider Special Counsel Jack Smith's request |
| 1:26.1 | to fast track consideration of Donald Trump's claim |
| 1:30.2 | he is immune from prosecution for alleged election obstruction in 2020, |
| 1:36.4 | intensifying the legal jockeying over whether Trump's criminal trial in DC |
| 1:42.0 | will stay on schedule for early next year. |
| 1:45.0 | The decision by the nation's highest court doesn't mean that the justices will definitely |
| 1:51.0 | short circuit the typical appeals process but it means |
| 1:55.6 | they're going to hear arguments from both sides about whether they should act |
| 1:59.7 | quickly. Trump's lawyers were told to file briefs on the issue by December 20th. |
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