Special counsel Jack Smith has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Donald Trump’s appeals right away, but that process could still delay his first criminal trial. The court swiftly agreed to take on the case and skip over the mid-level appellate court in Washington, D.C., but recent history suggests “the present court usually takes longer than six months to move at its version of lightning speed,” reported The Daily Beast. An analysis by law professor Stephen Vladeck and his research assistant David Merlinsky at the University of Texas at Austin found the court has weighed in 50 times in t…