'Study in contrasts': Jack Smith taps veteran SCOTUS lawyer — while Trump’s 'has argued a single case'

As former President Donald Trump and special counsel Jack Smith select lawyers to argue represent them before the Supreme Court — if the high court takes the case — Politico reports the legal teams "will be a study in contrasts."

Per the report, "The two teams may collide soon in a high-stakes skirmish at 1 First Street. Last week, Smith petitioned the Supreme Court to swiftly weigh in on Trump's claim that he is immune from being prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Smith hopes the court will take the case on an expedited basis in order to keep Trump’s Washington, D.C., trial — scheduled to begin March 4 — on track."

The special counsel, according to Politico, "has brought in one of the most accomplished modern Supreme Court advocates: Michael Dreeben, who has argued more than 100 cases at the high court and is a preeminent authority on the court's criminal law doctrines."

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Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung responded to Smith's choice, saying, "Deranged Jack Smith and his team have been so badly outmatched by President Trump's powerhouse attorneys, that 'Deranged' had to beg a tainted Democrat operative, who helped engineer the exposed Mueller hoax, to come to try and save them. That pathetic attempt will fail."

Politico reports, "Dreeben is an institutionalist who spent three decades at the Justice Department defending the power of the executive branch to investigate and prosecute crimes — experience that surely will be relevant as he backs Smith's prosecution of Trump."

The news outlet also notes, "This isn't the first time Dreeben has helped a special counsel investigating Trump. While Trump was president, Dreeben worked on special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of links between Trump's campaign and Russia. He helped work on litigation related to Mueller's authority."

The former president, on the other hand, "has not added any veteran Supreme Court advocates to his team," Politico reports. "Instead, he will be represented by a trio of conservative lawyers" — all based in Missouri — including "D. John Sauer, Will Scharf and Michael Talent, according to a person familiar with Trump's plans."

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Sauer, the report points out, "is a veteran of the conservative legal community who's best known for his involvement in Republican-backed lawsuits that blocked Joe Biden’s student-debt cancellationand accused the Biden administration of social-media censorship."

Additionally, "according to a database of Supreme Court arguments, Sauer has argued a single case, while Scharf and Talent have not argued before the court."

Yet, Cheung lauds the trio as "some of the most experienced, qualified and determined minds in American jurisprudence."

Politico's full report is here.