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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday, December 12th, 2023. This is the

excerpt.

Today, how the Supreme Court is being asked to weigh in on Trump's election interference case.

Plus, a pregnant Texas woman has left the state for an abortion and an investigation reveals a lack of

supervision in the military classified documents leak. Special counsel

Jack Smith yesterday asked the Supreme Court to step into the legal battle over

whether former President Donald Trump can claim immunity from criminal charges

tied to his alleged interference in the 2020 election.

I caught up with USA Today, Supreme Court correspondent John Fritzy

to put the request in context.

John, thanks for making the time.

Hey, Taylor.

So John, what is Special Counsel Jack Smith requesting from the Supreme Court here?

What he is really asking them to do is hurry it up. So you've got a lower court that ruled against former President Trump on whether he could claim immunity from these criminal charges stemming from his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election and Trump appealed that ruling to the

Court of Appeals here in Washington, D.C. That's a process that could take some time, maybe months, before it would work its way

up to the Supreme Court on it. Next appeal and so on. And the problem with that from Jack

Smith's perspective is that the trial in this case is supposed to begin in early March.

If this thing goes through the normal process, there's no way that that trial will start by March 4th.

And so the sort of extraordinary step that Jacksmith is taking here is saying,

hey, look, let's cut out the DC circuit before the appeals court even gets a chance to look at this.

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