Trump team will seek dismissal of federal election subversion case as each side mulls the next steps - Breitbart

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Defense lawyers also intend "as a threshold matter" to seek the dismissal of the case on the same grounds that a federal judge in Florida cited last month in tossing out a separate prosecution charging Trump with illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
37% : Though prosecutors initially accused Trump of wide-ranging schemes to cling to power and to block the peaceful transfer of power, they must now contend with the aftermath of a Supreme Court opinion that said former presidents enjoy absolute immunity for exercising core constitutional powers and are presumptively immune for other official acts they take as president.
33% : The defense team, in a joint filing late Friday with prosecutors that lays out dueling proposals for the next steps, foreshadowed a series of anticipated challenges that would draw out until deep into next year the criminal case charging Trump with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
32% : "The filing is an acknowledgment of the radically altered legal landscape since Smith filed the indictment in June 2023 and the challenges prosecutors have encountered in trying to hold Trump accountable this year.
28% : Those include arguments that a new and more limited indictment issued by prosecutors this past week still contains allegations for which Trump, as a former president, is entitled to immunity, such as his conversations with his then-vice president, Mike Pence.
27% : The Supreme Court said Trump was "at least presumptively immune" from prosecution for that conduct, Trump's lawyers note.
24% : Smith's team responded to the ruling with a new indictment this past week that removed allegations related to Trump's dealings with the Justice Department, an area of conduct for which the court said Trump was immune from prosecution, and made other changes.

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