CNN —The biggest question now that the Supreme Court has decided Donald Trump is entitled to some immunity from prosecution: What happens next in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against the former president?
Those are likely to come in the days after the Supreme Court hands the opinion down formally to the federal courts in DC.
The Supreme Court said that that Trump’s pressure campaign on Vice President Mike Pence to help him overturn the election is “presumptively” immune, and put the burden on the prosecutors to rebut the presumptive immunity.
The Supreme Court’s ruling strongly suggests that those appeals would need to be resolved pre-trial, making it unlikely this case goes to a jury before Americans cast their ballots for president.
Jack Smith’s options going forwardIt’s also possible that Smith’s office winnows down his case to bring it in line with the Supreme Court’s opinion.
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