"On behalf of the Biden Administration, the prosecution will do everything that it can to rush to an unconstitutional and fundamentally unfair trial to try to prevent President Trump from winning the 2024 election, which he is currently leading," stated the filing.
According to legal expert Bradley Moss, the stay is likely to be granted while the questions about presidential immunity are litigated.
"This brief could have easily been three pages. They stretched it to nine pages with needless political commentary," the lawyer wrote.
Trump is attempting to argue to a higher court that he is immune from criminal charges in the 2020 election interference case, because he was carrying out the course of his presidential duties when he attempted to overturn the election results.
Legal experts have largely cast doubt on this defense, and believe the former president is using it to try to drag out the trial to past the 2024 election.
Special counsel Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to expedite a review of that question during their current term.
By: Matthew Chapman
