Federal judge postpones Donald Trump's Jan. 6 trial as DC Circuit weighs immunity claims

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : The panel was skeptical of the argument made by Trump's attorney John Sauer that a former president should be immune from criminal liability for actions taken while in office within the "outer perimeter" of the president's official duties -- an expansion of a Supreme Court precedent set in Nixon v. Fitzgerald which established that former presidents are immune from civil liability.
48% : Chutkan's decision to vacate the March trial date comes as little surprise, as the case has been on pause since Dec. 13 when Trump raised his theory of presidential immunity to the appeals court and Chutkan had recently scheduled another trial for a Capitol rioter to begin April 2.
36% : Trump, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, has repeatedly tried to delay the proceedings, first demanding Chutkan recuse herself because she's biased against him, then appealing a gag order imposed in the case and finally raising his immunity claim to the D.C. Circuit.
29% : Special counsel Jack Smith, who levied four charges against Trump for his efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat which laid the groundwork for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, has fought for the trial to begin and end well before the 2024 election.
22% : Trump is expected to appeal any negative ruling to the full bench of the Circuit, or potentially the Supreme Court, which is dominated by Republican-appointed justices, three by Trump.
20% : John Lauro, Trump's lead attorney in the district court case, had previously argued that because the Senate had acquitted Trump at his second impeachment trial for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection, the special counsel's charges amounted to a violation of the double jeopardy clause.
15% : The poll, published on Jan. 22, found that if Donald Trump is convicted by a Washington jury, he would lose a head-to-head matchup with Biden 52% to 48%.

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