“I’m really nervous,” Hope Hicks told a packed Manhattan courtroom as the former White House Communications Director began her much anticipated testimony in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial.
25.04.2024 - 13:01 / deadline.com
As Donald Trump returns to a New York courtroom for another day of his hush money trial, another team of his lawyers will be arguing before the Supreme Court in a case that is of utmost consequence to his fate.
The justices will consider whether his conduct as president gives him broad immunity from prosecution.
The high court’s decision won’t impact the current proceedings playing out in Manhattan, but they will likely decide whether Trump’s January 6th case —- in which he is charged with conspiring to remain in power —- moves forward.
The justices’ opinion also may ultimately set the ground rules for any future president, as they are weighing questions that have never quite come before the court this directly.
Many legal scholars predict that the justices will decide that Trump does not have immunity, but almost as important is how quickly the Supreme Court rules. That will impact when a federal trial in the January 6th case can start, with figures like Liz Cheney urging the justices to act quickly so as to ensure that proceedings can happen before the election.
“No President who tries to steal an election and seize power is entitled to immunity for those acts,” Cheney wrote on X/Twitter this week. “The American people deserve to hear all of the J6 evidence presented in open court. SCOTUS should conclude without delay that no immunity applies here.”
Steven D. Schwinn of the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law wrote that there were a myriad of factors that could delay the case even after the court rules, a decision that may not come until late June. “All this may push any trial back after the 2024 presidential election and, if Trump were elected, the transition. And that could allow a second-term
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