Planned trial date: Unclear
Last week: There’s been so much going on that you may have forgotten the Supreme Court’s explosive July 1 decision saying presidents cannot be prosecuted for their official acts, but may be prosecuted for private or unofficial ones. The conservative court majority took a broad view, suggesting that a president could be considered to be acting in his official capacity when carrying out his constitutional powers in pursuit of committing a crime. The justices left it to the lower courts to hash out the specifics of what is considered an official act and what is considered a private one.
The immunity ruling was in response to the D.C. case. Judge Tanya S. Chutkan must now determine which actions laid out in the indictment should be considered official or unofficial. The whole thing could have somewhat of a boomerang effect, with Trump and prosecutors likely appealing whatever Chutkan decides — eventually sending portions of the case right back to the Supreme Court. It’ll be a slow process that will make it nearly impossible for the case to go to trial before the presidential election. And like the Florida case, if Trump becomes president, this one probably ends.
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