Hearing Set to Discuss Next Steps in Trump’s Federal Election Case

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 3, 2024, 1:03 p.m. ET | Alan Feuer

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After nearly eight months in limbo, former President Donald J. Trump’s federal election interference case sprang back to life on Saturday as the judge overseeing it scheduled a hearing in Washington for Aug. 16 to discuss next steps.

At the hearing, the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, will discuss with Mr. Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, how each side would like to proceed with a complicated fact-finding mission the Supreme Court ordered last month. The order was part of its landmark ruling granting Mr. Trump broad immunity against criminal prosecution for acts arising from his presidency.

A key element of that decision requires Judge Chutkan to sort through the 45-page indictment accusing Mr. Trump of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and decide which of its many allegations can move forward to trial and which arise from official acts of his presidency and will have to be tossed out.

The upcoming hearing, in Federal District Court in Washington, will be held to hash out the details of that fact-finding process. It remains unclear at this point whether Judge Chutkan will rely solely on written briefs from the two sides or whether she will schedule a more substantial hearing to consider evidence, perhaps from witnesses involved in the case, in what could resemble a mini-trial.

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Article presented under topic "humor" to grant it all the respect it deserves.

[John S Mosby]

“Sprang back to life?” really? It was shot down dead by the SCOTUS— no possibility of being acted on without ILLEGAL actions by this afro-carib “judge”. Criminal action judge if doing so.

NY Times- haha— and desperate posting for “saving” their criminal actions.

[John S Mosby]

It didn’t spring back to life— the judge is under SCOTUS orders to go through the entire case— which will trigger dismissal in the first one she encounters of the major “evidence”. NYTimes propaganda of course.

[John S Mosby]

NYTimes -— motto: “All the News that’s S—T to print”—

or is it “Democracy dies in Darkness/Blackness”? Wapo?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Shouldn’t Chitcan recuse herself? It doesn’t seem right for one misandrist Jamaican coconut to put the Republican “white dude” in jail to make sure another misandrist Jamaican coconut rises to power in the White House? This makes it look like the Caribbeaner tribe is winning the battle for America. America has definitely become a third world banana republic and were going to pay for it real soon.

[beethovenfan]

I thought Jack Smith was gone (?)

[SuperLuminal]

The biden-obama cabal says: "SCOTUS be damned!"

Charges will probably be increased to include Trump's illegally turning his head at the Butler rally...

[Organic Panic]

The solution is easy for leftists. No trial needed (like the sham Engeron judge declared) and Trump is locked away in solitary confinement until he dies. This is their last hope to get a “legal” way to remove Trump. When they say “any means necessary” they mean it.

[Jacquerie]

Yeah, I suppose it is up to Trump’s lawyers to mention the “oh-by-the-way” that judge Aileen Cannon found persecuter Jack Smith’s appointment unconstitutional.

[Political Junkie Too]

Judge Chutkan to sort through the 45-page indictment accusing Mr. Trump of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election...

Meanwhile, the Democrats just overturned the results of their 2024 primary election.

-PJ

[Mustangman]

Will the Dems be put on trail for interfering with Biden’s election?