Donald Trump opposes the special counsel’s request for the Supreme Court to decide right now whether he has any immunity from federal prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office, lawyers for the former president told the justices in court papers Wednesday.

Special counsel Jack Smith asked the high court last week to review a lower-court ruling that Trump, as a former president, is not immune from the election subversion criminal case. Smith in his appeal to the justices asked them to take the rare step of reviewing the issue before a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, weighs in.

But Trump, whose legal strategy in the case so far has largely revolved around attempts to delay the proceedings, told the justices that Smith should not be able to leapfrog over the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to resolve the critical issue.

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    11 months ago

    What the heck is Lemmy.zip (asking you in reference to the guy you’re rebutting, I’ve come across nothing but schizos from this particular instance…

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          11 months ago

          Looks like I’ll be doing a good old blockerino! Thanks for the heads up.

          Edit - oh God I just visited, what a shit hole

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            11 months ago

            Can I have the link please?

            Also ya. And it literally sounds like those virus sites we were warned about. Zip is a file type so its super fucking weird right out the gate

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              I just clicked the link you posted in my previous comment and it took me to the home page for that, then look at local.

              However, may have misspoke, upon further digging, it looks pretty mundane. When I visited it was showing me other instances and there were some things about Epstein and the war in Gaza and the Ukraine. I made an unfair judgement.

              So. Make that what you will. There be crazy folk everywhere tho. Not to say op is crazy, just that I disagree with their take on this.