Unique counsel advises appeals court to decline Trump resistance defense
Unique counsel Jack Smith advised an appeals court on Saturday to decline previous President Donald Trump's efforts to dismiss his federal election disturbance case on governmental resistance premises.In a more than 80-page filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Smith refuted Trump's persistence that governmental resistance safeguards him from prosecution on federal charges that he conspired to reverse the 2020 governmental election."Separation-of-powers concepts, constitutional text, history, and precedent all explain that a previous President might be prosecuted for criminal acts he dedicated while in workplace-- consisting of, the majority of seriously here, prohibited acts to stay in power regardless of losing an election," district attorneys compos...