Trump Prosecutor Urges Supreme Court to Allow Quick Jan. 6 Trial

Special Counsel Jack Smith urged the US Supreme Court to allow a criminal trial of Donald Trump for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, as the prosecutor races the calendar in the run-up to the November presidential vote.

In a court filing Monday, Smith said the justices should reject Trump’s bid for immunity from prosecution for actions that included a fiery speech to supporters shortly before many of them stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

“A bedrock principle of our constitutional order is that no person is above the law — including the president,” Smith argued in a ...