Former President Donald Trump‘s attorneys and special counsel Jack Smith requested a three-week delay to proceedings in the federal 2020 election subversion case, citing a need to further evaluate the Supreme Court’s recent presidential immunity ruling.
“The Government continues to assess the new precedent set forth last month in the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States … including through consultation with other Department of Justice components,” according to the joint status report filed to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.
Although Smith notes those “consultations are well underway,” the government has not finalized its position on the “most appropriate schedule for the parties to brief issues related to the decision,” the special counsel’s office wrote, referring to the Supreme Court ruling that found…
