{"id":2293968,"date":"2024-07-13T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T14:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smith-pleads-with-trump-judge-to-ignore-recent-supreme-court-opinion-on-immunity-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T14:47:44","slug":"smith-pleads-with-trump-judge-to-ignore-recent-supreme-court-opinion-on-immunity-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smith-pleads-with-trump-judge-to-ignore-recent-supreme-court-opinion-on-immunity-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith pleads with Trump judge to ignore recent Supreme Court opinion on immunity &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsmith-pleads-with-trump-judge-to-ignore-recent-supreme-court-opinion-on-immunity-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2293968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200darticle discusses how Jack Smith, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-reactions-to-bombshell-durham-report-liberals-just-have-no-idea-about-any-of-this\/\" title=\"Media Reactions To Bombshell Durham Report: Liberals \u2018Just Have No Idea About Any Of This\u2019\">special counsel investigating<\/a> former President Donald Trump, has requested Judge Aileen Cannon\u200b to not \u2064apply Supreme Court \u2063Justice Clarence Thomas&#8217;s\u2064 opinion on immunity\u2064 to \u200da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-key-people-in-the-biden-classified-docs-scandal\/\" title=\"Five Key People in the Biden Classified Docs Scandal\">classified document case<\/a>. Smith agreed to hold a briefing\u2062 on how the Supreme Court ruling may impact the case moving forward, which upheld \u200bbroad immunity for presidents facing prosecution for actions \u200cwhile in office. Despite\u2063 this \u200bruling, Smith has urged Judge Cannon\u2063 not to\u2063 consider\u2062 Thomas&#8217;s \u200dopinion\u200d in\u200d her decision. The Trump legal team is advocating for Cannon to take the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision \u2064into account.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Smith pleads with Trump judge to ignore recent Supreme Court opinion on immunity<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/anna-giaritelli\/\">Anna Giaritelli<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-13T10:30:57-04:00\">July 13, 2024 10:30 am<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1693283\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to investigate former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>, asked Judge Aileen Cannon not to allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Supreme Court<\/a> Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019s opinion to be applied to the classified document case. <\/p>\n<p>Smith agreed on Friday to hold a briefing about how the highest court ruling would affect the case going forward. The ruling upheld broad immunity for presidents facing prosecution for actions taken while in office, according to a document <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652\/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.671.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>filed<\/a> by the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>But Smith petitioned Cannon, a Trump appointee, not to consider Thomas\u2019s opinion in her ruling. <\/p>\n<p>The Trump legal team has asked Cannon to keep the Supreme Court\u2019s decision front of mind. The Trump camp <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/4756956-trump-immunity-case-classified-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>filed a motion<\/a> to halt the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-asks-supreme-court-to-reject-trump-request-in-fbi-classified-documents-case\/\" title=\"DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Reject Trump Request in FBI Classified Documents Case\">classified documents case<\/a> following the Supreme Court immunity decision.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas wrote in his concurring decision that if the \u201cunprecedented prosecution is to proceed, it must be conducted by someone duly authorized to do so by the American people. The lower courts should thus answer these essential questions concerning the Special Counsel\u2019s appointment before proceeding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cannon has approved the Trump team\u2019s request to postpone several deadlines in the immunity case until the Supreme Court ruling could be evaluated as to how it would affect the other case. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smith maintained in his filing Friday that Thomas\u2019s claims were not applicable to the case.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s 6-3 ruling earlier this summer broke up some of the Smith indictments against\u00a0Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1693283\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1693283\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smith, the special counsel investigating former President Trump, asked Judge Cannon to disregard Justice Thomas&#8217;s recent Supreme Court opinion on presidential immunity in a classified document case. Smith agreed to discuss how the ruling would impact the case, but urged Cannon not to consider Thomas&#8217;s opinion. The Trump legal team wants the Supreme Court decision to be taken into account, as they believe it supports their argument. Cannon has agreed to postpone deadlines in the case to evaluate the impact of the ruling. Smith argued that Thomas&#8217;s claims were not relevant to the case, as the Supreme Court ruling had already affected some of the indictments against Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2293969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/immunity-jack-smith.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5387,7608,32275,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2293968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-judge","tag-smith","tag-supreme-court","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/immunity-jack-smith.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}