Former President Donald Trump on Thursday filed a motion arguing that special counsel Jack Smith should be held in contempt for continuing to submit court filings in the D.C. election subversion case while proceedings are paused. Smith last week asked U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to bar Trump from introducing “irrelevant disinformation” into the case in a filing Trump claimed was “illegal.”
"The stay order is clear, straightforward, and unambiguous," Trump attorney John Lauro wrote in the filing. "All substantive proceedings in this court are halted. Despite this clarity, the prosecutors began violating the stay almost immediately." The filing asked Chutkan to release an order showing why prosecutors should not be held in contempt or ordered to withdraw their filing and be barred from making future filings.
