courtesy: NC Newsline
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Special counsel Jack Smith requested a judge recently to bar Donald Trump’s lawyers from injecting politics into the former president’s trial on charges that schemed to overturn the results of 2020 elections.
In a 20-page filing, Smith’s office told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan that the former president’s lawyers must be prohibited from “raising irrelevant political issues or arguments in front of the jury,” including that the prosecution against him is vindictive and selective or was coordinated by President Joe Biden.
The prosecutors argued that in addition to being wrong, the allegations are also irrelevant to the jury’s determination of the defendant’s guilt or innocence. They added that it must be considered prejudicial and must be excluded from presenting it to the jury.
The motion to preclude Trump’s lawyers from introducing broad categories of arguments is a way to decide what part of information will the jury get when the case goes onto trial.
Earlier, the matter was declined by the Supreme Court, but a federal appeals panel will be hearing the argument on January 9.