Trump Will Seek Jack Smith’s Dismissal in January 6 Case, Argues That Prosecution ‘Must End as a Matter of Law’
The 45th president discloses that strategy in a brief that previews a contentious stretch in the shadow of November’s vote.
The joint status report presented to Judge Tanya Chutkan and co-authored by the teams behind President Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith discloses that the two sides are anything but synced on how the 45th President should be tried for January 6. The filing is a preview of Trump’s plan to stymie the prosecution.
Judge Chutkan requested the summary in advance of a hearing she has scheduled for Wednesday on how the election subversion case against Trump ought to proceed. The prosecution has been upended — but not entirely derailed — by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. United States that official presidential acts are presumptively immune.
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