Election may decide if Trump's legal woes reach US Supreme Court or...

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57% : Trump ultimately could appeal his conviction to the Supreme Court.
50% : Trump is the Republican candidate facing Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, with the winner becoming president on Jan. 20.
50% : The case could be affected if Trump wins in November.
46% : Assuming Trump has not become president and ended the case that way, Chutkan's eventual application of the immunity ruling to these charges most likely would be appealed first to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, with the Supreme Court as the expected next step.
44% : "If Trump loses the election, the Supreme Court will almost certainly revisit his immunity as former president," University of Illinois Chicago law professor Steve Schwinn said.
43% : In June, it raised the legal bar for prosecutors pursuing obstruction charges in the federal election subversion case against Trump and defendants involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.DOCUMENTS CASE Smith's office has asked the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive the federal criminal charges concerning the documents after Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon threw out the case in July.
40% : In another decision favorable to him, the court in March reversed a judicial decision that had barred Trump from Colorado's presidential primary ballot.
39% : The Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority includes three justices appointed by Trump.
39% : Trump is appealing to the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the two judgments against him in lawsuits by Carroll - one $5 million and the other $83.3 million.
36% : The fate of at least two of the cases with Trump as a defendant could hinge on the election's outcome.
33% : "GEORGIA ELECTION CASETrump could similarly seek in a Supreme Court appeal to claim immunity in the Georgia election-related prosecution in which he and 14 co-defendants have pleaded not guilty to charges involving efforts to overturn his 2020 loss in Georgia.
32% : If Trump loses in November, all the various cases would proceed in the lower courts and could potentially be appealed to the Supreme Court in due course as they otherwise would have.
31% : Hashimoto said the judge probably would postpone sentencing if Trump wins the election.
30% : If Trump regains the presidency, he could seek to pardon himself or have his new Justice Department leadership pull the plug on the two federal criminal cases pursued by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
30% : Cannon, named to the bench by Trump in 2020, ruled that Smith's 2022 appointment violated the U.S. Constitution because Congress did not authorize Attorney General Merrick Garland to name a special counsel with that degree of power and independence.
29% : In the hush money case, Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 26 by Justice Juan Merchan.
28% : "Trump also raised an immunity argument in the New York hush money case," Hashimoto said, "and it will undoubtedly be one of the arguments he will make in the Supreme Court if he loses in the New York Court of Appeals.
28% : "The state prosecution against Trump in Fulton County would likely have to be held until Trump left office for further proceedings.
25% : Seven important cases featuring Trump as the defendant are currently in the lower courts - two involving federal criminal charges, two state criminal prosecutions and three civil lawsuits.
25% : Trump pleaded not guilty in the criminal cases and denied wrongdoing in all the cases.
22% : Trump also is appealing the nearly half-billion dollar judgment against him over real estate business practices in the civil fraud case brought by New York state Attorney General Letitia James.
15% : "The new attorney general (appointed by Trump) would terminate the special counsel appointment and have the charges against Trump dropped," said Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University College of Law.
10% : Supreme Court has given Trump three victories this year*If elected, Trump could end his federal criminal cases*Four Trump criminal cases percolating in lower courtsBy John KruzelWASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) -

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