Jess Bravin and Ryan Barber in the Wall Street Journal:

Special counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to take up Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution and can’t face criminal charges related to efforts to overturn the November 2020 election, in an unusual effort to expedite a judgment crucial for moving the case speedily toward trial.

The former president’s lawyers have grounded that argument in the Senate having acquitted him in an 2021 impeachment trial involving many of the same events, and that trying him again would amount to double jeopardy—that is, being prosecuted twice for the same crime.

Smith’s motion asks the court to take up the case before an appeals court considers it, forcing the justices to squarely weigh in on when, if at all, Trump’s trial should move forward.

Additional coverage in the New York Times and the Washington Post.