Trump Files Motion Seeking Pause of Jack Smith’s 2020 Case

Published on November 16, 2023

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump requested a pause in the 2020 federal election case proceedings while a judge considers if he had presidential immunity. In a court filing on Wednesday evening, the former president’s lawyers said that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, should halt all court proceedings in the case until she rules on whether he is immune from prosecution due to his former status as the U.S. president. They noted that a number of public officials, including members of Congress and police officers, often can get “stays of discovery and of other pre-trial proceedings when they assert official immunity, pending a final resolution of those asserted claims of immunity.”...

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