West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey joined a coalition of 22 states asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a request to pause the D.C. Circuit’s ruling in former President Donald Trump’s immunity case on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results.
“Jack Smith’s convoluted reasoning on the timing of the case is absurd, to say the least—when it took the special prosecutor two years to lodge charges,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “It’s obvious Smith is rushing this and wants to try the case before the 2024 presidential election.”
“How much more political can this get?”
“To say the least, the timing is suspicious, and it warrants explanation. But the United States has never offered one,” the coalition wrote in the brief. "… But the public has its theory: Commentators across the political spectrum have connected the dots between the rush to trial and the looming November 2024 election. President Biden himself, in November 2022, declared that Donald Trump ‘will not take power …. I’m making sure he, under legitimate efforts of our Constitution, does not become the next President again.’”
Attorney General Morrisey joined the Alabama-led brief with Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
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