Gary Roush, of College Park, Md., protests outside of the Supreme Court, Monday, Jul 1, 2024, after court decisions were announced in Washington. WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court's ruling Monday in former President Donald Trump 's 2020 election interference case makes it all but certain that the Republican will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election.
The ruling means that special counsel Jack Smith cannot proceed with core allegations in the indictment — or must at least defend their use in future proceedings before the trial judge. The Trump team had argued that the selection of alternate electors was in keeping with Trump’s presidential interest in the integrity and administration of the federal elections and cited as precedent an episode from 1876 in which President Ulysses Grant sent federal troops to Louisiana and Mississippi to ensure that Republican electors got certified in those two cases.
No pre-trial preparations have taken place in more than six months since Chutkan put the case on hold in December to allow Trump to pursue his appeal. Chutkan had indicated she's likely to give the two sides at least three months to get ready for trial once the case returns to her court. That had left the door open to the case potentially going to trial before the election if the Supreme Court — like the lower courts — had ruled that Trump was not immune from prosecution.
“Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law,” Sotomayor wrote.
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