{"id":54290,"date":"2023-12-11T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/politics\/special-counsel-goes-directly-to-supreme-court-to-resolve-whether-trump-has-immunity-from-prosecution\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T17:57:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:57:18","slug":"special-counsel-goes-directly-to-supreme-court-to-resolve-whether-trump-has-immunity-from-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=54290","title":{"rendered":"Special counsel goes directly to Supreme Court to resolve whether Trump has immunity from prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clq176fqw003qfznr2evjajmc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to decide whether Donald Trump has any immunity from criminal prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office \u2013 the first time that the high court will weigh in on the historic prosecution of the former president.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clq17crg7000f3b6hr270hfoc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      The extraordinary request is an attempt by Smith to keep the trial \u2013 currently scheduled for early March \u2013 on track. Smith is asking the Supreme Court to take the rare step of skipping a federal appeals court and quickly decide a fundamental issue of the case against Trump.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clq177k5n00033b6hwf96wwji@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      <em>This story is breaking and will be updated.<\/em>\n  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/11\/politics\/special-counsel-trump-jack-smith\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to decide whether Donald Trump has any immunity from criminal prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office \u2013 the first time that the high court will weigh in on the historic prosecution of the former president. 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