Prosecutors Ask SCOTUS to Reject Trump’s Immunity Bid in Election Case

Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday pressed the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The special counsel’s assertion that “no person is above the law—including the president” was backed up in supplementary filings by retired military officials and former Republican lawmakers.

In a friend of the court brief, a group of 19 retired four-star U.S. military generals and other retired high-ranking military officials called Trump’s argument “contrary to the foundational principles of our democracy.” They warned that a ruling in Trump’s favor would undermine a president’s “legal and moral authority” to command military forces, “as it would signal that they but not he must obey the rule of law.”

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