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Three weeks after special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal court in Washington, D.C. for more time in former President Donald Trump’s election interference case — as prosecutors grappled with the Supreme Court’s recent immunity ruling — an 11th-hour filing was made in the case. Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman weighed in on the filing on X, calling it an “all-important joint submission from Smith and Trump to [Judge Tanya] Chutkan,” about “how to proceed in light of Supreme Court immunity ruling.” “They are literally burning the midnight oil in DOJ and Trump’s lawyers’ office,” he wrote jus…

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