Trump Team Fights Back With 'Powerhouse Motion' Requesting That DC Court Hold Jack Smith in Contempt

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62% : To understand the basis for the motion, let's set the table: Smith caused a bit of a stir the last week of December when his office filed a 20-page motion in limine with the D.C. Circuit Court in the 2020 election interference case pending before Judge Tanya Chutkan. READ MORE: Jack Smith Files Motion to Muzzle Trump, Prevent Efforts to 'Inject Politics' Into the Case While many remarked on the apparent aim of the motion to limit Trump and the ability of his team to "inject politics" into the case (never mind that the case is, itself, largely about an election), in truth, it was a fairly standard pre-trial motion -- the sort of pleading wherein parties seek to limit the ability of the opposition to introduce certain items or categories of evidence.
57% : to Stay Proceedings Pending Appeal at 3, ECF No. 182.
55% : Blassingame v. Trump, No. 22-5069, 2023 WL 8291481, at *22 (D.C.Cir.
46% : However, she also notes that if Trump were to ask the reviewing court to "take temporary jurisdiction over the enforcement of those measures, and that court agrees to do so, this court of course will be bound by that decision.
24% : " Lauro also said that motion "mirrors the Biden administration's dishonest talking points, asserting, again falsely, that President Trump was responsible for the events of January 6, 2021, when in truth he called for peaceful and patriotic assembly and protest." "In this manner, the prosecutors seek to weaponize the Stay to spread political propaganda, knowing that President Trump would not fully respond because the Court relieved him of the burdens of litigation during the Stay," Lauro wrote.
21% : " Lauro also said Smith filed an "expansive motion in limine less than 10 days later," which he said "teems with partisan rhetoric, including false claims that President Trump 'propagates irrelevant disinformation' both 'within the courtroom' and 'outside of it.'
19% : " "Through counsel, President Trump advised that he rejected the prosecutors' unlawful productions, that their actions violated the Stay Order, and that he would seek relief if their malicious conduct continued.

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