Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to investigate former President Donald Trump, asked Judge Aileen Cannon not to allow Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinion to be applied to the classified document case.
Smith agreed on Friday to hold a briefing about how the highest court ruling would affect the case going forward. The ruling upheld broad immunity for presidents facing prosecution for actions taken while in office, according to a document filed by the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Florida.
But Smith petitioned Cannon, a Trump appointee, not to consider Thomas’s opinion in her ruling.
The Trump legal team has asked Cannon to keep the Supreme Court’s decision front of mind. The Trump camp filed a motion to halt the classified documents case following the Supreme Court immunity decision.
Thomas wrote in his concurring decision that if…
