Former President Donald Trump was indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith last year over claims that he attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Yet as Newsweek reported late last week, the former president's lawyers are now leveling allegations of their own against the special counsel. 

Trump's lawyers accuse Smith of having "repeatedly misstated the law"

In a brief filed with Judge Tanya Chutkan this past Thursday , defense attorneys John Lauro and Todd Blanche asked her to "pause the current schedule until the Special Counsel's Office establishes that they are in compliance with their discovery obligations."

According to Lauro and Blanche, "The Special Counsel's Office has repeatedly misstated the law and mischaracterized their discovery obligations."

Specifically, they complain that Smith "urges the Court to conclude that the prosecutors responsible for this case have no discovery obligations with respect to files at the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office—where some of the very same prosecutors worked on the investigation that led to this case."

Trump's lawyers say that access to more information is necessary for them to show that the former president is immune from prosecution pursuant to a ruling America's highest judicial body handed down earlier this year.

Presidents enjoy a presumption of immunity for official acts

In writing his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts explained that presidents enjoy the presumption of immunity when undertaking official acts.

What's more, actions related to a president's "core" constitutional functions have absolute immunity while unofficial acts enjoy no immunity at all.

The former president's defense team insists that their client's actions following the 2020 presidential election were official in nature, something which will be shown by evidence in the government's possession.

In writing their brief, Lauro and Blanche asserted that the special counsel's office has created serious problems, which present 'unique risks to the effective functioning of government.'"

Defense says Smith has colluded with other federal actors in his "unjust pursuit"

What's more, the attorneys went on to claim that there has been collusion between Smith and the National Archives and Records Administration.

"The communication is an apt example of the overlapping nature of these entities' relationships and interactions in connection with their common objective: unjust pursuit of President Trump," they wrote.