Earlier this month, attorneys for Trump asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to hold Smith in contempt for filing motions ahead of deadlines.
The judge overseeing the federal election interference case against former President Donald Trump has rejected his request to hold special counsel Jack Smith and his office in contempt.
Earlier this month, attorneys for Trump asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to hold Smith in contempt for filing motions while the case is stayed pending Trump’s appeal on presidential immunity grounds.
Not just any paperwork, and not to the court. Smith’s team sent Trump’s team discovery documents. They are literally crying because Smith’s team is giving them requested documents even though they don’t technically have to.
I imagine they are upset that it will prevent them from stalling further on the grounds that “they just received all of this material and we’ll need time to go through it all!”
I’m sure they were hoping the appeal with buy them time then they’d try to get more time once they got the discovery. Jack Smith just blew up that dumb charade.
Is it? That’s not what the article seems to say.
Judge also apparently agreed he shouldn’t have done it, but said it also wasn’t a big deal and they were being babies.
More specifically, the Judge said that there was nor order preventing the Gov from filing. She then issued an order to that effect; so if Smith continues doing it, there likely would be a contempt order issued.