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The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling ordered the trial court to hold hearings on the parts of the prosecution that could do so, an imaginable possibility for prosecutors to present their case in public before Election Day.
By Alan Feuer
Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on executive immunity almost certainly leaves former President Donald J. Trump will not be tried for trying to overturn the last election before the electorate sends him back to the White House in the next election.
But the ruling also allowed prosecutors to detail much of their evidence against Trump ahead of a federal trial on (and the public) in a giant investigative hearing, in all likelihood before Election Day.
It is not yet clear when the hearing, which was ordered as part of the court’s decision, will take place or how long it will last.
But it will answer the big question the justices referred to the lower court, which is the extent to which Trump can approve of the decision that former presidents have immunity for the official moves they make while in office. And it will be held in federal court in Washington before Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who was handling the case before it was frozen more than six months ago by a series of courts considered to be his immunity claims.
Almost from the moment Judge Chutkan assigned the case, she moved it forward quickly, seeming to have little patience with Chutkan’s efforts. Trump to delay it, or with his court cases that hindered his campaign.
At one point, she told the former president that her “day job” as a candidate would not affect her handling of the case, later declaring, “This trial will not yield to the election cycle. “
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