Trump To SCOTUS: Woah, Let’s Just Slow Down A Little

Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to reject a request from federal prosecutors to fast-track the former President’s claim that Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s team cannot charge him for acts he took while in office.

Trump has been trying to delay the criminal cases brought against him, and accused Smith in a filing of asking the court to move at “breakneck speed.” Smith had asked the Supreme Court to scoop up consideration of the immunity issue from the D.C. Circuit, taking over the case earlier in the appeal cycle than is normal.

In a 44-page filing, Trump said that the court would expose itself to errors if it leapfrogged the D.C. Circuit, and accused Smith of having no interest in speeding the case up apart from a “partisan” one.

Read the filing here.