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CNN —Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan told special counsel Jack Smith to stop submitting court filings without her permission in the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump, after the former president’s legal team complained that proceedings were supposed to be on hold. But Chutkan did not hold Smith’s team in contempt, as Trump’s legal team suggested she do. Chutkan’s decision on Thursday is in line with what Trump’s team had sought from her in recent weeks. The case is on hold until the federal appeals court in Washington, DC, decides key questions about immunity around the presidency and gives further direction what should happen next for Trump’s case. Chutkan said she hadn’t previously “unambiguously forbid” the prosecutors from making filings while the case is paused.

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☆ Opinion | The Trump Trial Date Is a Big Mistake
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

These choices are often defended with the suggestion that any critique is just a bad-faith attempt to let Trump or his voters off the hook. Yes, there’s always “the possibility that Mr. Trump collapses under the weight of his legal challenges,” as my colleague Nate Cohn puts it. To beat Trump in the primary, any challenger would need part of that bloc to resist the rallying impulse and swing their way instead. There may be Republican voters who regard these prosecutions as theater designed to keep Trump from the nomination and therefore expect the legal cases to fall apart when his lawyers make their defense. electorate said they wouldn’t vote for Trump if he were convicted of a felony, compared with 35 percent (that Trumpian core again) who said they would, and that more than half said they wouldn’t support him in the fall campaign if he were imprisoned.

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☆ Donald Trump's legal team meets with special counsel as federal indictment looms
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Evan Perez Jamie Gangel Kaitlan Collins Katelyn Polantz Tierney Sneed Sara Murray Alayna Treene Kristen Holmes | Evan Perez | Jamie Gangel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The grand jury hearing evidence from the special counsel’s probe into efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election is sitting Thursday at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC. After breaking for an early lunch, the grand jury has reconvened. The grand jury, which normally meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays, had not been seen inside the federal courthouse since last week. Another source familiar with the legal team’s thinking tells CNN they also expected to discuss the logistics of how a potential indictment and arraignment of the former president would work. This is the second time Trump is facing potential charges brought by Smith’s team.

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Here’s what to know about the significance of the charges and what happens next:Three main buckets of chargesThe indictment lays out three main buckets of alleged criminal activity by Santos. The second set of accusations concern Santos’ allegedly false applications for unemployment benefits, resulting in a theft of public money count and two more wire fraud counts. To establish the alleged unemployment fraud scheme, investigators likely have the attestations Santos allegedly made to participate in the public benefits program. The House disclosure documents that Santos allegedly lied on are publicly available documents. There’s also the potential that, instead of a jury trial, Santos seeks a bench trial – i.e.

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