It’s been a busy week for special counsel Jack Smith’s team and their prosecutions of Donald Trump. It was, for example, just a few days ago when Smith asked the U.S. Supreme Court to immediately consider the question of whether the former president has immunity on actions he took to overturn the 2020 election. He also asked an appeals court to fast-track its consideration of the same issue.
Common sense might suggest that members of Team Trump, if they were confident in their immunity claims, would want the matter to proceed quickly. After all, if their argument were correct, pending charges against the former president would start disappearing.
But the Republican’s lawyers are apparently in no rush. In fact, in a court filing this week, they went so far as to accuse the special counsel of being a “Grinch” because he expects Trump’s staff to work around the winter holidays. NBC News reported:
Trump’s lawyers made the comparison in a court filing Wednesday that unsuccessfully urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule against Smith’s request for an expedited appeal on whether Trump can claim presidential immunity in a criminal case accusing him of illegally trying to stay in power after his 2020 election loss.
In the filing, Trump’s attorneys, referencing Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” said that signing off on Smith’s proposed schedule “would make President Trump’s opening brief due the day after Christmas. This proposed schedule would require attorneys and support staff to work round-the-clock through the holidays, inevitably disrupting family and travel plans. It is as if the Special Counsel ‘growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming, “I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming. … But how?”’”
At this point, I could write a couple of paragraphs about how fundamentally unserious such an argument is. I could also point out that the current deadline is Dec. 23…
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