Jack Smith tells Supreme Court to reject Trump’s motion for presidential immunity in J6 case

On Monday, special counsel Jack Smith urged the Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump's "novel and sweeping" immunity claim in his 2020 election and January 6 case.

Smith claimed that Trump's assertion that the president should be above the law contradicts the "bedrock principle of our constitutional order."

"No presidential power at issue in this case," Smith argued in a 66-page filing, "entitles the President to claim immunity from the general federal criminal prohibitions supporting the charges: fraud against the United States, obstruction of official proceedings, and denial of the right to vote."

He added that a president's "constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed does not entail a general right to violate them."

"The Framers never endorsed criminal immunity for a former President, and all Presidents from the Founding to the modern era have known that after leaving office they faced potential criminal liability for official acts," Smith continued, citing the case of Richard Nixon.

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