Jack Smith Derails Trump’s Effort To Delay His 1/6 Trial

A late-night joint standing report confirmed that Donald Trump is attempting to delay his federal 1/6 trial till the Spring-Fall of 2025, however Particular Counsel Jack Smith has different concepts.

The Particular Counsel wrote within the joint standing report:

The defendant additionally intends to file a movement to dismiss the superseding indictment on the premise that the grand jury that returned it was uncovered to immunized conduct. As a result of consideration of that movement would require the Court docket within the first occasion to make the very determinations described above, the Authorities believes that the Court docket ought to take into account the defendant’s grand jury declare solely after conducting the fact- and context-specific evaluation of whether or not the superseding indictment comprises immunized conduct.

To do in any other case could be inefficient for this Court docket as a result of it will entail successive rounds of immunity determinations and would pose the danger of a number of rounds of interlocutory appellate evaluation, one after every set of the Court’s immunity determinations. The Authorities is ready to file its opening immunity transient promptly at any time the  Court docket deems applicable.

• Different Motions. The defendant plans to file further motions to dismiss. The Court docket has indicated that it’ll conduct its immunity determinations earlier than resolving different points. See, e.g., ECF No. 197. The Authorities notes that it might promote judicial financial system for the Court docket to schedule briefing of all different Rule 12 motions concurrent with the immunity litigation. That manner, all motions might be absolutely briefed, and the Court docket can later decide when to take them into consideration. If the Court docket units a deadline for the defendant’s different Rule 12 motions, the Authorities requests that the Court docket set the identical date for the defendant’s opening briefs as for the Government’s opening immunity transient, adopted by parallel opposition and reply deadlines.

The defendant’s proposed schedule additionally contemplates a separate deadline and motions follow relating to discovery. The Authorities doesn’t see a purpose to delay immunity determinations and different pretrial litigation to individually tackle the defense’s pending or proposed discovery motions.

The Trump protection group argued that it will take a really very long time to get by way of the entire procedural motions, so they’ll want not less than a 12 months earlier than the trial can proceed. Jack Smith isn’t enjoying any of these video games, so the Particular Counsel needs a extra compressed schedule that can enable the case to maneuver ahead as rapidly as doable.

Decide Chutkan has already signaled that she needs to maneuver ahead rapidly, so of the 2 proposed schedules, it’s a secure guess that the Particular Counsel’s proposed schedule might be chosen and Trump’s newest effort to delay will go down in flames.

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Jason is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work targeted on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.

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