Jack Smith's Prosecution of Trump Now in a 'Real Mess'

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Prosecuting Trump for January 6 is going to be very difficult to achieve before the presidential election.

Prosecuting Donald Trump is going to be much more difficult after the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity, legal experts said.The Supreme Court ruled that Trump has absolute immunity for core presidential acts and 'presumptive immunity' for acts within the outer perimeter of official presidential acts.

'I think it's a very messy opinion which provides little guidance to the lower court on how to proceed, except to recognize that the claims regarding communications with the attorney general must be dismissed, and the claims relating to communications with Pence will likely have to be dismissed,' he said.Germain added that it is now 'very hard to see this case coming to trial before the election.

 

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