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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is prosecuting the Georgia election racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, rejected the idea she has any responsibility to put the trial on hold to let Trump run for re-election.

In an interview with the Associated Press released Wednesday, she said, “If the prosecutor finds that they violated the law, they have an ethical duty to bring forth charges and so this is a silly notion to me that because one runs from office that your criminal case would stop."

Former FBI assistant director-turned attorney Chris Swecker thinks Donald Trump has a good chance of walking free from his Jan. 6 case, Newsweek reported.

Special Counsel Jack Smith asked on Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court fast-track a decision on whether Trump has presidential immunity, to which the Court replied that it would quickly decide on whether to hear the case.

Attorneys for Donald Trump are now comparing Jack Smith to the "Grinch," while alleging the Special Counsel is attempting to disenfranchise millions of American voters by trying to convict the ex-president.

"The prosecution has one goal in this case: To unlawfully attempt to try, convict, and sentence President Trump before an election in which he is likely to defeat President Biden. This represents a blatant attempt to interfere with the 2024 presidential election and to disenfranchise the tens of millions of voters who support President Trump’s candidacy," the ex-president's attorneys wrote in a motion opposing expedited review of Trump's already-rejected claim of absolute immunity from prosecution because he was President when he attempted to overturn the 2020 election results.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) agreed to hear the appeal of a January 6 defendant. The implications could impact former President Donald Trump's pending criminal trial.

SCOTUS granted several writs of certiorari Wednesday, in which it agrees to take up cases heard in federal appellate courts. The last writ granted on Wednesday was in the case of Fischer, Joseph W. v. United States, which involves a participant in the deadly U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

Former President Donald Trump is claiming that because he was still president in late 2020 and early 2021, he enjoys "immunity" from prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case. That "immunity," Trump claims, renders the case invalid.

Smith considers Trump's immunity-from-prosecution argument in the case ludicrous, and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has agreed. In a December 1 ruling, Chutkan stressed that the office of the presidency "does not confer a lifelong get-out-of-jail-free pass."

Is special counsel Jack Smith the new four-star general in the "War on Christmas?"

That appears to be the allegation that former President Donald Trump's lawyers are making in their arguments against granting Smith's request for expedited review of whether the former president can be held criminally liable for actions that he took while he was still president.

During a Tuesday, December 12 conversation with CNN's Anderson Cooper, former President Richard Nixon White House counsel, Watergate whistleblower and CNN contributor John Dean shared his thoughts on special counsel Jack Smith's current "gambit" in his criminal 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump.

CSmith's current push to get Donald Trump's "claim of immunity in the January 6th case on a fast track to the Supreme Court," Cooper said "could be a decision that ranks among the most consequential for the high court." He added, "Perhaps the closest the court came was in 1974 with US v. Nixon which compelled then-President Nixon to turn over those Watergate tapes."

Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig revealed on MSNBC that, when meeting with Donald Trump, he confessed that he was on board with the Jan. 6 protesters attacking the U.S. Capitol.

"I remember my co-author and I, when we wrote a book about the last year of Donald Trump's presidency, we went to visit him and interview him on the record," she recalled.