Trump election interference case resumes in D.C. after year-long delay over immunity fight

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : The hearing comes two months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump, who is the Republican presidential nominee, has presumptive immunity from prosecution for official acts he performed while president.
32% : Trump was not in attendance at Thursday's hearing, where his defense team entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf.
29% : Special counsel Jack Smith, whose team is prosecuting Trump, last week obtained a superseding indictment against the former president that contained the same four criminal counts he faced in the case, but which omitted claims of conduct that might be blocked by the Supreme Court's ruling.
19% : The ruling sent the case back to Chutkan to rule on questions about what evidence could be used against Trump in light of that decision at any trial on the counts accusing him of trying to illegally reverse his loss in the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
19% : Two weeks after the Supreme Court's ruling, a federal judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon, dismissed another criminal prosecution of Trump on the ground that Smith's appointment as special counsel violated the appointments clause of the U.S. Constitution.
17% : The Supreme Court ruled that Trump, who is set to face Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in November, is not immune from prosecution for unofficial acts.
17% : Trump was accused in that case of retaining classified government documents after leaving the White House and of obstructing efforts to recover them.
14% : Trump's lawyer John Lauro told Chutkan he wants to file a motion challenging the indictment of Trump because Smith, who heads the prosecution team, was not legally appointed to that role by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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