In the ongoing effort among prosecutors to work around a Supreme Court ruling in July that gave Donald Trump immunity for official acts he took while president, special counsel Jack Smith wants to file a public version of a Thursday brief with “substantive” information from witnesses in Trump’s election interference case.
The effort, reported by ABC News, comes a day after Smith filed a sealed brief where Smith claimed that presidential immunity should not apply to Trump, who is accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
In Friday’s filing, Smith seeks to release a version of the brief that will redact names of witnesses, except for former Vice President Mike Pence, along with other information not meant to be seen by the public.
“The public’s interest is fully vindicated by accessing the substantive material in the Government’s filing,” the filing said. […]
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