The scheduling of the Washington case is now in the hands of the Supreme Court justices, who will soon have to decide whether Donald J. Trump has executive immunity.
Jack Smith, the special counsel, stressed that speed was in the public interest, pushing back against former President Donald J. Trump’s request that the court pause an appeals court ruling.
Whenever Donald Trump is accused of something, he responds by accusing his opponent of that exact thing. The idea is less to argue that Mr. Trump is clean than to suggest that everyone else is dirty.