Trump Lawyers Back In Court Today For Federal Election Case -- Here's What To Expect

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Even if the judge does rule before then on what Trump can be charged with based on the immunity ruling, Trump is expected to then appeal that ruling -- possibly all the way up to the Supreme Court -- which will drag out the case again before it can go to trial.
47% : Justices ruled 6-3 that Trump and other ex-presidents have criminal immunity for "official acts" they took while in office.
46% : Former President Donald Trump's attorneys and Special Counsel Jack Smith will appear Thursday morning in federal court as the case over Trump trying to overturn the 2020 election resumes following a months-long pause, with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan expected to determine how the case will move forward -- and how much will happen before the election.
41% : Since there won't be a trial before the election, the fate of the criminal case will be determined by whether Trump wins.
40% : With two months to go before the election, it wouldn't even matter if Trump didn't appeal any immunity ruling, because Chutkan has previously suggested it will take about four months before the case can go to trial once the immunity concerns are out of the way, given other pretrial motions that still have to be dealt with.
36% : Trump was first indicted in August 2023, and the case was initially scheduled to go to trial in March before the immunity dispute pushed it back.
33% : The indictment also makes small changes to its language to emphasize that prosecutors believe Trump was acting as a candidate and private citizen in his efforts to overturn the election, not as president.
26% : "The federal election case is one of four criminal cases brought against Trump, with the ex-president facing felony counts of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.
26% : While the charges all stayed the same, prosecutors removed some specific allegations of how Trump unlawfully tried to overturn the election -- namely by pressuring DOJ officials to challenge the results, which the Supreme Court ruled was an official act.
23% : If he loses, the case will proceed to trial as normal, but if Trump takes back the White House, it's expected that Trump would appoint officials to the Justice Department who would have the charges against him dropped.
23% : Smith's updated indictment revises the government's allegations against Trump in light of the Supreme Court's ruling.
21% : "This is merely an attempt to INTERFERE WITH THE ELECTION," Trump wrote, going on to claim "the whole case should be thrown out and dismissed on Presidential Immunity grounds.

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