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What happens next in Trump’s DC election case after the Supreme Court’s immunity decision
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The biggest question now that the Supreme Court has decided Donald Trump is entitled to some immunity from prosecution: What happens next in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against the former president?
The biggest question now that the Supreme Court has decided Donald Trump is entitled to some immunity from prosecution: What happens next in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against the former president? Assuming Smith stays the course, written arguments and even proceedings with witness testimony and evidence are likely to be next before US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, DC. The special counsel’s office has not responded yet publicly to the decision, and there is nothing at the moment on Chutkan’s docket indicating what next steps will be taken in the trial court. Those are likely to come in the days after the Supreme Court hands the opinion down formally to the federal courts in DC. The mechanism for sending a case back down usually takes as a long as a month, but the high court could act more quickly – particularly if a party asks it to. Once Chutkan works through the legal issues, it’s possible that more appeals could put the case on hold again. This is why it may be unlikely for Trump to go to trial this year, if at all. But courts can be hard to predict. The Supreme Court put one set of allegations against Trump – regarding his and his allies’ efforts to weaponize the Justice Department – in the bucket of absolute immunity.
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