"...A CNN legal analyst just DESTROYED Jack Smith and Judge Chutkan..."
Nope.
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In fact, at the very hearing that Honig cites where Judge Chutkan called it “procedurally irregular” for Smith to file first, Judge Chutkan also said that Trump’s lawyers could file a simultaneous motion to avoid any perceived prejudice from responding second. Or as she put it, “We can all walk and chew gum at the same time.”
That was the beginning of September. The defense had a whole month to go ahead and get its motion together. Honig elides this issue in his righteous rage over allowing Smith to ask for a ruling on Trump’s primary grounds for dismissal.
But Smith argued that a compelling reason to let him go first and set the stage for the immunity argument was to avoid the defense trying to string this out forever with piecemeal immunity arguments. That would seem to make this move in the interest of judicial economy! Probably something worth mentioning… though Honig does not.
