Legal experts are singing special counsel Jack Smith's praises after the federal prosecutor dodged an effort from Donald Trump to delay his criminal case in Washington, D.C. by asking the Supreme Court to rule expeditedly on whether the former president's claims of presidential immunity from prosecution.
In an effort to have the indictment thrown out, Trump put forth the argument that he can't be prosecuted for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election results because he was president at the time. He's also argued that he can't be prosecuted because, while he was impeached by the House of Representatives, he was not convicted by the Senate.
