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into the hands of Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday, and within 48 hours, she had made about a half dozen moves to forward the case along.
Hours later, she denied another outstanding request from Trump to toss out his charges, this time shutting down his argument that his case should be dismissed because the indictment was politically motivated. Blackman is among those who believe Chutkan and Smith have been working to put Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, in front of a jury before the election, but this is a “completely alien” way to view the criminal justice system, he said.
What happens next depends largely on how Smith approaches the conundrum the immunity decision has presented. The Supreme Court deemed at least some of the activity in his indictment of Trump as off-limits from being used in a criminal prosecution, meaning Smith has to, at the least, carve out parts of the indictment and reduce Trump’s charges.
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