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Special Counsel Jack Smith filed Monday his argument to the Supreme Court against Donald Trump’s presidential immunity plea, court records show. Smith delivered a 66-page condemnation of the former president’s claim that his actions between the 2020 presidential election and U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, are beyond the reach of prosecution in the special counsel’s federal election interference case. “Petitioner’s use of official power was merely an additional means of achieving a private aim—to perpetuate his term in office,” Smith writes. “That is prosecutable based on private conduct.”…

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