JUST IN: 19 Attorney Generals File SCOTUS Motion To Stop Jack Smith!

Finally, a coordinated effort to stop Jack Smith, or at least halt his advances.

Reported on former Attorney General Edwin Meese’s effort to nullify Jack Smith’s legal actions by calling into question his very legitimacy as a special prosecutor.

🚨 BREAKING: We have filed a brief at the United States Supreme Court to halt Jack Smith’s move to circumvent the appeals process in his prosecution of President Trump.

The DOJ’s attempt to accelerate the prosecution is blatantly partisan, and SCOTUS must reject it. https://t.co/HXeW2ci4uj

— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) December 21, 2023

Now, we are seeing 19 conservative AGs file a SCOTUS brief to halt Jack Smith’s attempts to hastily remove any question of Donald J. Trump’s Presidential immunity.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is among the signatories to the brief as is Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.

Here’s to hoping they can halt Smith and here’s to hoping that Edwin Meese can delegitimize the unspecial prosecutor!

Ken Paxton’s Office issued this press release:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) opposing Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s petition that requested SCOTUS take up former President Donald Trump’s appeal for presidential immunity before a lower appeals court considers the issue.

Smith’s effort to circumvent the standard appellate process is extraordinarily unusual. To elevate the petition to SCOTUS before a lower court has considered the issue, the petitioner must show a clear public need for immediate action.

Smith, representing the United States government, has not demonstrated the urgency he claims justifies this attempt to bypass the ordinary appellate process.

The brief explains: “The United States’ petition repeatedly proclaims—but never explains why—‘[i]t is of imperative public importance that respondent’s claims of immunity be resolved by this Court and that respondent’s trial proceed as promptly as possible if his claim of immunity is rejected.’

That silence is both telling and troubling, suggesting that the United States’ demand for extraordinary and immediate relief is driven by partisan interests, not the public interest.”

Here are the first several pages of the SCOTUS Brief filed by Missouri AG Andrew Bailey and others attempting to halt Jack Smith. You can read the full brief here.

Daily Mail provided some background on Smith’s request to SCOTUS:

Earlier this month, Smith has asked the Supreme Court to conduct an expedited review of Trump’s claim to special immunity from prosecution – in a move to keep the former president’s trial on track.

‘It is of imperative public importance that (Trump’s) claims of immunity be resolved by this court and that (Trump’s) trial proceed as promptly as possible if his claim of immunity is rejected,’ Smith said.