Trump pushes for lengthy pre-trial process in election subversion case as special counsel leaves schedule to judge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Before Trump successfully sought the intervention of the Supreme Court, the federal election interference case was moving at a speedy clip, with a trial at one point set for last March.
53% : Trump pushes for lengthy pre-trial process in election subversion case as special counsel leaves schedule to judgeTierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNNAugust 31, 2024 at 6:50 AMFormer President Donald Trump and special counsel Jack Smith are at odds over how the election subversion case in Washington, DC, should move forward, according to a status report filed late Friday.
49% : Trump would file a response and then prosecutors would reply to that, under Smith's plan.
48% : It will be the first hearing in the case after the landmark Supreme Court ruling that said Trump has some immunity in the election subversion prosecution.
39% : Trump wants to challenge Smith's appointment before dealing with immunityThe parties disagree in the Friday filing on the order of operations and whether certain issues in the case can be resolved concurrently.
38% : In the classified documents case filed in Florida against Trump, the other case Smith brought against the 2024 Republican nominee for president, a prosecutor told the judge in March that the policy does not apply to a case that's already been charged.
34% : Smith is not offering firm dates for the next phase of the case, while Trump is recommending a schedule for certain pre-trial disputes that would carry through until at least the beginning of 2025.
33% : Trump also indicated he plans to seek the case's dismissal because he claims the grand jury that approved the new superseding indictment "considered immunized evidence" in the case - namely, presidential conduct that was immunized by the Supreme Court's ruling.
31% : Smith would like Chutkan to first tackle the questions raised by the Supreme Court's recent ruling on presidential immunity, but he says she can do that while also handling certain other pre-trial issues that Trump plans to bring up in the case.
31% : In a Tuesday post on Truth Social, Trump called the superseding indictment a "direct assault on Democracy!
29% : Trump, meanwhile, said that he plans to challenge the legality of Smith's appointment and argued the judge should deal with that issue before moving on to the immunity dispute.
28% : "Trump pushes for lengthy process for resolving immunity in caseA major area of disagreement between Smith and Trump is how the court should go about resolving whether presidential immunity covers any aspects of the superseding indictment.
25% : But Smith's team did not drop any of the four charges, including conspiracy and obstruction, that they had originally brought against Trump, to which the former president previously pleaded not guilty.
24% : "Trump also raised the possibility his lawyers would challenge the case based on the Supreme Court's ruling in a US Capitol riot case that limited how prosecutors used obstruction charges against January 6, 2021, defendants.
13% : The retooled indictment carved out allegations that Trump had tried to use the Justice Department to further his 2020 election reversal schemes, and it removed evidence apparently derived from conversations that Trump had with his presidential advisers.

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