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Former President Donald Trump is deliberately trying to drag out his Washington, D.C. trial over election interference as much as possible — and it's all an effort to exploit a critical weak point in the American legal system, argued former Homeland Security official Paul Rosenzweig for The Atlantic.

Trump's latest stall tactic concerns his claim he has "presidential immunity" from being prosecuted for actions taken in office — a claim most experts have dismissed because Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election were in his capacity as a candidate and not a president.

Conservative Daily Beast columnist Matt Lewis warned that former President Donald Trump is trying to make his most audacious and shameless pitch yet by positioning himself as a champion of democracy.

Despite the fact that Trump has been indicted both by special counsel Jack Smith and by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for his efforts to illegally remain in power after losing the 2020 election, Lewis argues that Trump has "a talent for divorcing words from their meanings -- and convincing millions he’s the truth-teller," despite decades' worth of evidence suggesting he lies pathologically.

Many defenders of former President Donald Trump have been claiming that the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building isn't something that he encouraged or condoned in any way. And far-right conspiracy theorists have falsely blamed everyone from FBI agents to leftist antifa supporters for the attack — with no evidence to support those claims.

But special counsel Jack Smith's office, according to The Guardian's Hugo Lowell, has "indicated" that it is planning to feature three witnesses at Trump's election interference trial "who could potentially show how January 6 rioters moved on the Capitol in response to the former president's tweets."

The U.S. Supreme Court quickly agreed to hear Donald Trump's appeals in his federal election subversion case, but don't expect justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself.

Special counsel Jack Smith asked the court to consider the case before an appellate court weighs in, and former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that it was a smart tactic.

Special counsel Jack Smith has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Donald Trump's appeals right away, but that process could still delay his first criminal trial.

The court swiftly agreed to take on the case and skip over the mid-level appellate court in Washington, D.C., but recent history suggests "the present court usually takes longer than six months to move at its version of lightning speed," reported The Daily Beast.

The move by special counsel Jack Smith to quickly move up the ladder and ask the Supreme Court to rule on Donald Truimp's claim of presidential immunity in the Washington D.C. court case was praised by one former federal prosecutor who pointed out that Smith brought in an expert to press the case.

On Monday the court agreed to expedite the case, thereby skipping the Court of Appeals, leading to the prospect that could keep the trial on track for a March start date.

Writing on her Substack platform, ex-U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance wrote the move by Smith is unprecedented if for no other reason it involves a former president of the United States.

Vance then argues that the special counsel, "is asking them to tell Trump that immunity (and double jeopardy, an argument with even less merit than immunity) is off the table so the case can proceed to trial."

A new letter from election security experts calls on federal officials to investigate the connection between voting system breaches in Georgia to breaches in other states, including Colorado, and warns of similar threats to 2024 election security.

Free Speech For People, a legal advocacy organization, joined the group Black Voters Matter and a coalition of election and computer security experts in signing the letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Wray and Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday.

Former President Donald Trump's White House communications director complimented special counsel Jack Smith Monday after the federal prosecutor managed to get the Supreme Court to agree to expedite the process of determining Trump's immunity.

Anthony Scaramucci — who lasted as Trump's communications director for only 10 days — was talking with CNN's Kaitlan Collins.