This does not include the Fulton County, Georgia, case....
Smith claims it "reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions in Trump v. United States."...
"To prove a violation of Section 1512(c)(2), the Government must establish that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or as we earlier explained, other things used in the proceeding, or attempted to do so."...
My quick take: "I think they will simply find ...
SCOTUS to hear case on the merits "limited to the following question: Whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office."...
"This Court should stay the D.C. Circuit’s mandate to forestall, once again, an unprecedented and unacceptable departure from ordinary appellate procedures and allow President Trump’s claim of immunity to be decided in the ordinary course of justice."...
I'm not sure it's 9-0, Sotomayor may be a dissent, but it sure is looking like a strong majority if not unanimous result of SCOTUS saying: Not us, not now....
Not a surprise. It will likely head to the Supreme Court now....
“I hope not to be in the country on August 5. I’m in trial in another matter that has not yet returned to my calendar.”...
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have not issued a formal ruling on presidential immunity claims....
A 10 PM phone call on Sunday night sent police and firefighters to a residence in Washington, D.C., because of a shooting. Law enforcement ended up at Judge Tanya Chutkan's house. Chutkan is the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's election interference case. Law enforcement quickly found...
"All substantive proceedings in this Court are halted. Despite this clarity, the prosecutors began violating the Stay almost immediately."...
"The Court should not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which he propagates irrelevant disinformation, and should reject his attempt to inject politics into this proceeding."...
The denial means it won't skip over the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which could push back the trial....
SCOTUS also agreed to Special Counsel Jack Smith's request that the justices quickly consider the arguments on whether Trump has presidential immunity....
Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to weigh in on Trump's claim that he has presidential immunity....
“Given the weighty and consequential character of the constitutional questions at stake, only this Court can provide the definitive and final resolution”...
"the Order should not have restricted speech about the Special Counsel himself. The Order already exempts speech about the Department of Justice as an institution...
