Trump's Fate Could Be Determined This Week

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The Democrats’ lawfare strategy against Donald Trump may be thwarted this week, as the Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments on Trump’s case on presidential immunity on Thursday, which could affect several of Trump’s trials.

“The question before the justices is whether Trump can be tried on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election,” explains SCOTUSblog. “The court’s answer will determine not only whether Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C., before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, originally scheduled for March 4 but now on hold, can go forward, but also whether the former president’s trials in Florida and Georgia can proceed.”

Not applicable in this case is the ongoing trial over Trump’s non-disclosure agreement in New York City.

A grand jury indicted Trump last summer on four counts stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probe into the Capitol riot. Smith accused Trump of sowing “widespread mistrust” by spreading falsehoods about election fraud and engaging in three criminal conspiracies targeting the electoral process.

No one has even been prosecuted for sowing “widespread mistrust” in the 2016 election with bogus allegations of Russian collusion.

Trump attempted to assert presidential immunity, but Judge Chutkan rejected this plea in December. Following this denial, Smith petitioned the Supreme Court to address Trump’s immunity claim promptly, bypassing the D.C. Circuit’s review, but the Supreme Court declined this request. The D.C. Circuit later upheld Chutkan’s ruling, rejecting Trump’s immunity assertion. They set a deadline of February 12 for the decision to take effect, allowing the criminal case against Trump to proceed unless he sought Supreme Court intervention. Trump did, and the Supreme Court ultimately agreed to take up the matter, fast-tracking the case for its April session…