Trump tells judge to dis­miss Jan. 6 case, cit­ing Supreme Court immu­ni­ty

Lawyers for for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump called for the imme­di­ate dis­missal of the 2020 elec­tion sub­ver­sion charges against him, argu­ing this week that the prosecution’s actions vio­late the Supreme Court‘s pres­i­den­tial immu­ni­ty rul­ing and Trump’s due process rights.
The fil­ing, sub­mit­ted close to mid­night on Thurs­day after the gov­ern­ment grant­ed an exten­sion to a 5 p.m. dead­line, reit­er­at­ed Trump’s long-held beliefs that spe­cial coun­sel Jack Smith‘s case sur­round­ing Trump’s post-2020 elec­tion chal­lenges and the sub­se­quent Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capi­tol should be thrown out to pro­tect the inte­gri …