Former U.S President Donald Trump, left, and Jack Smith, right, special counsel for the United States Department of Justice. Credit: ALM/Wikimedia Commons Trump Election-Interference Prosecution Appears on Course to Wind Down
"Winning the election is going to make it difficult for any of these cases to get to him," Syracuse University law professor Gregory L. Germain said of President-elect Donald Trump.
November 08, 2024 at 03:15 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
What You Need to Know
- Federal charges against President-elect Donald Trump cannot stick, according to legal experts.
- A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity suggests the president wields vast executive authority, including self-pardon powers.
- Two U.S. Department of Justice memos from 1973 and 2000 say the United States cannot prosecute a sitting president.
The prosecution for election interference of President-elect Donald Trump was placed on hold—and is likely to wind down before his inauguration, set for Jan. 20, 2025—when U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan granted Special Counsel Jack Smith's motion to place the matter on hold Friday.
Chutkan approved an unopposed motion from the special counsel's office tossing out the remaining deadlines in the pretrial schedule of Trump's federal Jan. 6 case. This means the president-elect's criminal defense team does not need to file briefs explaining its legal arguments favoring dismissal of the case.
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