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court has agreed to fast track consideration of a case testing whether former president donald trump has immunity from some of the criminal charges against him. the man in charge of prosecuting the former president on charges of election interference asked the nation s top court today to step in and now the highest court in the land has responded. correspondent david spunt has details tonight. good evening, david. bret, good evening. they certainly did. just moments ago the justices instructed the former president s attorneys to weigh in by next wednesday, december 20th. the supreme court is a body of nine that tries to remain apolitical but those justices are now being asked to enter the nerve center of the 2024 presidential election. special counsel jack smith has made an emergency plea to the justices asking them to rule on whether donald trump is immune from prosecution. smith petitioned the court earlier this afternoon asking for a quick decision. the federal jud ....
we must act. now. let us declare our independence.tt when wele think about america, post independence, it is very little chance it will survive.ca ll washington was upset, because wee we were calling ourselves the united states, ourselves the united states, aron this leads to a call for a convention. talking about having 40 or 50 guys in this room. and you are in hot summer. and you are in hot summer. you are arguing. the framers have a newrg and radicae l idea. that is popular sovereignty. he s not going to establish a monarchy. he s going to establish a democratic republic. and it wasn t about him as an individual. it was about the office. hello, i m bret baier. welcome to mt. vernon on the banks of the potomac river. this was george washington s home. his business and his most beloved place on earth. but his dedication to his country is best measured by the time he spent away from here. his dedication is beste measuresov by the time he spent away fro ....
let us declare our independence. when we think about america, post independence is very little chance that it s going to survive. washington was upset because we were calling ourselves the united states. he says, are we united or are we not? this ultimately leads to a call for a convention and talking about having 40 or 50 guys in this room and you re in the hot summer. you re arguing the framers have a new and radical idea, and that is popular sovereignty. as george washington said, never before in history have you seen this sort of people debating about their form of government without violence. he s not going to establish a monarchy. he s going to establish a democratic republic. and it wasn t about him as an individual. it was about the office. hello, i m bret baier. welcome to mt. vernon on the banks of the potomac river. this was george washington s home. his business and his most beloved place on earth. but his dedication to his country is best measured by the ti ....
continue to follow breaking news and an extraordinary request by special counsel jack smith at the supreme court decide to whether the former president have immunity from prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office, this will be the first time the high court could weigh in on the historic prosecution of the former president. joining us now is a senior supreme court analyst job is cubic and paula reid. so, paula, this is a pretty aggressive move from the special counsel. what is the play? that is exactly right, this is the first time the special counsel jack smith has gone to the supreme court, he is asking it to decide if the former president is immune from criminal prosecution. that is a constitutional question that has never been decided, but really what is at stake is the timing of trump s first criminal trial. trump has been litigating this issue of immunity, he lost at the district court level and signaled he would appeal, the next stop would usua ....
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