Saying the Supreme Court needed to essentially slow down and chill, Donald Trump’s lawyers filed a 17-page reply to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a speedy review of Trump’s claim that he enjoys a mystical absolute presidential immunity, saying that it really isn’t in the public interest to have a speedy trial because Donald Trump’s claim “on immunity will require careful and deliberate review of myriad historical sources and could even require additional fact-finding below.”
“This Court should stay the D.C. Circuit’s mandate pending the filing and disposition of an en banc petition in the D.C. Circuit and, if necessary, a petition for certiorari in this case. The panel opinion departed from its usual practice of withholding its mandate pending the filing of such a petition,” Trump’s lawyer argues. “This decision was ill-considered. En banc review is a vital component of the lower-court percolation that assists this Court, as the example of Nixon v. Sirica demonstrates.”