Biden just got tossed a huge win by the Supreme Court.
The court rejected Trump's claims of blanket immunity. The SC ruled that the *only* issue trump is protected from prosecution over is his charges for investigating voter fraud.
Every. Single. Other. Issue is up to lower judges to decide if he has immunity, and we all know how that will play out
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https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2024/07/scotus_immunity-7-1.pdfhttps://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/01/trump-federal-election-subversion-case-future-00166156Now what? Here are the next moves for all the key players after the Trump immunity ruling.
Judge Tanya Chutkan, special counsel Jack Smith, and Donald Trump’s lawyers have big decisions to make after the immunity ruling.
The Supreme Court’s long-awaited decision on Donald Trump’s presidential immunity claims threw huge hurdles in the way of special counsel Jack Smith’s drive to prosecute the former president for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
But the decision also leaves a lot for Trump, the prosecutor and the judge to decide as another presidential election looms and as the defendant mounts a campaign to return to the Oval Office.
Here’s POLITICO’s look at what the three key players in the election subversion case might do next.
Tanya Chutkan’s time crunch
If a trial before Election Day seemed difficult before the immunity ruling, it’s all but impossible now.
The high court punted to U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan many of the most critical decisions about what charges and evidence Smith can use against Trump, while leaving open the possibility of future appeals.
“The ball is really in her court,” said former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth, a professor at Cardozo Law School.
