redstate.com
Lost in the swirl of events over the past three weeks, as well as the rapid pace of events in cases in multiple courts involving former President Trump, is the fact that he moved to dismiss the Washington D.C. case filed against him by Special Counsel Jack Smith based on a claim of “Presidential immunity” from criminal prosecution for acts while in office.
On October 19, 2023, Smith filed an Opposition to that motion. Much like the motion itself, the Opposition escaped scrutiny as it came around the same time Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro pled guilty – to what I’m still not certain – in the Georgia case, the judge in the New York state civil case was imposing sanctions and a gag order against the former President, and the judge in the DC case imposed, and then stayed, a gag order against the former President in that case.
In addition to the motion asserting Presidential immunity, Trump’s legal team filed additional motions last week challenging the case based on a variety of constitutional and statutory grounds. The oppositions from Smith to those motions are not yet due. The immunity motion might eventually be part of a single hearing addressing all the various motions filed to this point in the case, or it may be heard on its own…
