Special counsel Jack Smith is expected to submit an “oversized” brief in former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington D.C. by Thursday.
The briefing is, in the view of the judge overseeing the case, needed to respond to the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling.
This comes as a response to the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this year, which found the president enjoys broad legal immunity for official “core constitutional acts.”.
“The Mueller report [was] 400 pages of we ‘didn’t find anything,’ this will be 180 pages of evidence and the evidence will be powerful, undeniable and persuasive,” Cobb said.
He added much of the evidence, like Trump’s call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, is already public.
“For Trump to claim presidential immunity for the actions described above is baseless and absurd.”.
He added that he sees the filing as violating Justice Department policy of not taking legal action against a candidate within 60 days of an election. »