Jack Smith seeks to streamline Trump's appeals in election interference case amid delays

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan held a status hearing in the case in a federal courtroom in Washington on Thursday, nine days after a new federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment against Trump charging him with the same four felonies he first faced in his original indictment last August: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.
47% : The latest indictment against Trump removed references to some evidence from his initial indictment following the Supreme Court's immunity ruling: chiefly, the government's claim that Trump attempted to weaponize the Justice Department on behalf of his presidential campaign, including by enlisting a right-wing civil environmental lawyer and election denier, Jeffrey Clark, to potentially take over the DOJ just days before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
31% : After Trump's initial indictment last August, Chutkan set a trial date for March 2024, meaning that a verdict would very likely have been returned at this point and, if convicted, Trump would likely be facing sentencing.
28% : Trump was not present in the courtroom.
22% : Trump recently told a podcaster that he lost the last election "by a whisker" -- he actually lost the popular vote by seven million and the Electoral College count by a significant margin -- before adding that he still thinks "the election was a fraud, and many people felt it was.
18% : Chutkan acknowledged that the case has not moved forward quickly due to Trump's appeal to the Supreme Court, which ruled that Trump has some presidential immunity and returned the issue to the lower court.
16% : "A Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida ruled that Smith was illegitimately appointed in dismissing a separate classified documents case against Trump in July.
16% : While numerous Jan. 6 defendants have told federal courts that they regret being gullible enough to be duped and manipulated by Trump's false election claims -- some of them even describing themselves as "idiots" -- Trump has continued to spread false information about the election, even as Fox News and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani have settled and lost civil cases, respectively, over their false 2020 election claims, resulting in findings totaling in hundreds of millions of dollars.

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