Disgraced former President Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday seriously filed, to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, widely considered to be the second most prestigious court of law in the United States, a motion calling their adversarial party, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, a “Grinch” who was trying to steal Christmas from them and their families.
Even if the Court grants expedited consideration – which it should not do – it should not adopt the prosecution’s proposed schedule, which is facially unreasonable. The prosecution “requests that the Court require the defendant’s opening brief be due no later than ten days from the entry of a briefing order,” – which, assuming the Court rules promptly on the motion to expedite after the close of briefing, would make President Trump’s opening brief due the day after Christmas. This proposed schedule would require attorneys and support staff to work round-the-clock through the holidays, inevitably disrupting family and travel plans. It is as if the Special Counsel “growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming, ‘I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming… But how?'” DR SEUSS, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (Random House 1957).
We know he won’t do it, but Smith really should call Trump “Jabba the Hutt” in his response.