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Special counsel Jack Smith has responded to the Supreme Court with a filing that urges them to allow the federal election interference trial against former President Donald Trump to move forward — and warns against any additional delays.

"Delay in the resolution of these charges threatens to frustrate the public interest in a speedy and fair verdict — a compelling interest in every criminal case and one that has unique national importance here," Smith wrote.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled earlier this month that Trump does not have immunity from prosecution in this case. The Supreme Court is currently debating whether to review that decision. If they did so, then even if they were ultimately to uphold the lower court ruling, it could increase the risk the trial will be delayed to beyond the November election....

On his latest episode of "Justice Matters," former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner noted that "the Supreme Court seems to be stepping up the pace a bit" on former President Donald Trump's request to review the lower court's rejection of his claim to be immune from prosecution.

But also, Kirschner focused on the nature of Trump's filing to the court — and a particular decision they made that he found completely inappropriate.

Specifically, Kirschner highlighted how the document opened with, "This application is deja vu all over again," quoting baseball catcher Yogi Berra. Now, the ex-prosecutor noted, "Yogi Berra is a lot of things, but a renowned legal scholar is not one of them."...

Trump's legal team is probably typing away on their filing to get his classified documents obstruction case scrapped now that President Joe Biden dodged criminal charges.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said the win for Biden to avoid criminal prosecution for being found to possess boxes of classified documents in his garage was a "close call" and may have cracked the window for Trump counsel to make a bid to convince the judge to stick a fork in his Florida federal case.

"Mark my words, Donald Trump's team in the federal [Special Counsel] Jack Smith classified documents team at Mar-a-Lago is going to bring a motion for what is called selective prosecution," he said. "Very, very hard to win these motions. What you have to do is show a judge, 'Somebody else did essentially the same thing I did. I was prosecuted. He was not.'"...

Trump's purportedly making "implicit threats" in his demand to remain on the 2024 presidential ballot.

Joyce Vance, a former federal prosecutor, appeared on MSNBC on Friday, saying former President Donald Trump's tactic of referencing potential "bedlam" was intentional, as if he's calling his MAGA fan base to action.

"The bedlam argument... is particularly disturbing, especially since Donald Trump is asking the Court to make the finding that he would never promote an insurrection," she said. "How odd to make that argument, but at the same time say 'If you take me off the ballot, there will in essence be disquiet in the country!'"...

Trump's latest paper dump in his classified document obstruction case is asking prosecutors to go fetch every potential relevant item pertaining to the matter from the entire country's intelligence apparatus.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance told MSNBC's Alex Wagner that the request is expected to be annihilated by special counsel Jack Smith when he responds.

While parts of the former president's latest filing may fall in the realm of plausibility, demanding Smith try to force every intelligence agency turn over their documents is absurd. ...