WASHINGTON—Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan is holding a status conference after months of delay in former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case. The Sept. 5 conference is expected to focus on how the court should proceed with a pre-trial process that started around the same time last year.
Since then, the Supreme Court has issued a landmark decision on presidential immunity in Trump v. United States. In doing so, it sent the case back to Chutkan to make determinations about which conduct outlined by special counsel Jack Smith in the indictment is subject to presidential immunity.
Smith filed a revised indictment at the end of August in an attempt to adjust for the Supreme Court’s immunity decision. The new filing drops some of the initial allegations but retains the four counts in the original indictment.
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Former President Donald Trump’s election interference case is expected to resume with a status conference on Sept.5 after months of delay related to his appeal based on presidential immunity.
Despite Supreme Court issuing landmark precedent in Trump v.United States in July,it’s likely case will proceed with further debate about scope of Trump’s immunity for acts taken roughly four years ago.A majority of Supreme Court held that presidents enjoy certain levels of immunity for official acts.
Status conference will help determine how parties will continue pretrial proceedings,which started around same time last year,and wrestle with how to proceed with special counsel Jack Smith’s superseding indictment,filed August.