A judge: A New Trump 2020 election meddling case
A judge has put Trump’s 2020 election meddling case on hold while he files an appeal of his immunity.
A judge decided on Wednesday to postpone Donald Trump’s election meddling case in Washington while the former president pursues his defense of his immunity from prosecution.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan increases the possibility that Trump’s trial—which was originally set for March 4—will be delayed while an appeal of an unproven legal theory makes its way through the legal system. Trump is accused of plotting to rig the 2020 election.
Prosecutors asked the federal appeals court in Washington to expedite their consideration of Trump’s appeal, and the court granted their request shortly after Chutkan’s decision.
The appeals court established dates for brief submissions between December 23 and January 2, but they have not yet arranged a time for disagreements.
A judge: Has Put Trump 2020 election meddling case Now
The matter is extremely important to both parties because a court decision in Trump’s favor would almost certainly ruin the case, and a drawn-out appeal could cause the proceedings to be significantly delayed—possibly until after the election of next year—which would help the outgoing president in his bid to win back the white house.
The judge’s decision to pause the case was hailed by a spokesman for the Trump campaign as “a big win for President Trump and our rule of law.”
According to Trump’s spokesperson Steven Cheung, “the constitution should not be suspended in a baseless prosecution against the leading candidate for President.”
A judge has put Trump’s 2020 election meddling case on hold while he files an appeal of his immunity
Chutkan rejected Trump’s assertions earlier this month that he was exempt from prosecution due to acts he took while carrying out in his capacity as president, his attorneys urged the judge to put the case on hold while they asked the appeals court in Washington, D.C., to review the ruling.
However, in an indication of the seriousness of the matter as well as his will to move the case along quickly, special counsel Jack Smith attempted to get ahead of the appeals court on Monday by requesting that the U.S.
Supreme Court expedite its decision on the immunity question, allowing the prosecution to move forward. The court gave Trump’s attorneys until December 20 to respond, signaling that it would make a swift decision about whether to pursue the case. However, it gave no indication of what it would actually do.
The Supreme Court added more ambiguity to the timeliness and ultimate outcome of the case on Wednesday, announcing that it would examine a charge of obstructing an official proceeding brought against over 300 individuals involved in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
This is one of Smith’s four charges against Trump, so a decision in the rioters’ favor would not only reverse those cases but also have an impact on the former president’s prosecution.
For months, the claim that Trump is exempt from prosecution has been regarded as possibly the most significant and legally significant objection raised by the Trump legal team prior to trial.
Since there has never been a prosecution of a former president, Trump’s team has seized on this historical precedent in an attempt to have the indictment dismissed.
However, Chutkan—appointed by former President Barack Obama—vehemently disagreed with Trump’s claims, stating that the president’s position “does not confer a lifelong ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ pass.”
Any “further proceedings that would move this case towards trial or impose additional burdens of litigation on Defendant” are suspended, per her most recent order issued on Wednesday.
She stated that the trial date and other deadlines were being postponed rather than cancelled, but she did not rule out the possibility of keeping the current trial date if the case comes back before her court.
She added that the implementation of a gag order limiting Trump’s speech outside of court was unaffected by her decision.
A judge: Has Put Trump 2020 election meddling case Now
Chutkan had been instructed by Smith’s team not to halt the case, stating that the judge could still handle unrelated matters.
Appeal while the appeals court is considering the immunity claim. If the higher courts reject Trump’s immunity argument, prosecutors said they would “continue to meet every pretrial deadline the court has set for it,” meaning the case could go to trial quickly.
Smith’s team had asked the D.C. appeals court to expedite its review of the Trump appeal, in addition to requesting that the Supreme Court hear the case.
However, as they urged the judges to take their time, Trump’s attorneys charged that the prosecution was attempting to expedite the case in order to win the presidency the following year.
In a social media post on Wednesday night, Trump accused Smith of attempting to rig the election by requesting expedited review of the immunity issue by the Supreme Court.
“It should be automatic because it is so basic to America,” according to Trump.
At a campaign rally in Iowa, he repeated that sentiment by claiming that the prosecution had not brought a case until “they saw I was hot.”
Typically, a Supreme Court case takes several months to resolve from the time the justices decide to take it on. Smith is requesting that the court proceed at an unusually quick pace—not an unprecedented one.
After being asked to compel President Richard Nixon to produce Oval Office recordings related to the Watergate scandal, the justices responded in less than two months, almost fifty years ago.
Later in 1974, the tapes were used in Nixon’s former aides’ corruption cases.
The high court only needed a few days to successfully determine George W. Bush’s victory over Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 presidential contest.
Trump’s appeal would proceed at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit if the justices decide not to intervene at this time.
Even a swift appeal decision, according to Smith, might not reach the Supreme Court in time for review and a final ruling before the court’s customary summer recess.
There are four criminal cases against Trump.
In addition to facing state prosecution in Georgia for allegedly attempting to sway that state’s 2020 presidential election, he is charged in Florida with unlawfully keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. In a New York case, he is accused of fabricating financial records in relation to a payment of hush money to a porn star.
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